Ax....hmmmmm....ok, I'll fidddle with it later and see if I can get it
to work. Thanks, but I think that this won't help Dan Swartzendruber,
who has no way to make the floppy and dd it to an image file because,
AFAIK, he has an ls-120 serving as a floppy drive on his machine.
Alan
Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
>
> 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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