Check it out, run mkbootdisk point it at a floppy
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=~/floppy.img
mount ~/floppy.img /mnt/floppy -o loop
mkfs /dev/<ls120>
mount /dev/<ls120> /mnt/disk
cp -ar /mnt/floppy /mnt/disk
Now fiddle with the boot= line in /mnt/disk/etc/lilo.conf, and
'lilo -r /mnt/disk' untill it works..
On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> Hoyt....thanks, but it doesn't work. After providing a path to vmlinuz
> and ammending the name to what is in the path I specified and
> substituting /dev/hda for /dev/<LS-120> it errored saying:
>
> dd: /dev/hda: Input/output error
>
> so I added a /
>
> dd: /dev/hda/: Not a directory
>
> so I added vmlinuz-2.2.13-7mdk and got:
>
> dd: /dev/hda/vmlinuz-2.2.13-7mdk: Not a directory
>
> Thanks again,
> Alan
>
>
> Hoyt wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 5:26 PM
> > Subject: Re: [expert] making bootdisk on LS120 drive?
> >
> > > Ramon....exactly, the option '--device <devicefile>' seems to be bogus,
> > > at least when specifying an ls-120. I was new to Linux about a year
> > > ago, and don't have a unix background, so I have never used anything but
> > > mkbootdisk. How would one use dd to create a boot floppy?
> > >
> >
> > dd if=vmlinuz of=/dev/<LS-120>
> >
> > should do it.
> >
> > Hoyt
>
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