you need syslinux -- use syslinux.com to make a new disk, or just make a copy of a disk and delete what you don't want (I suggest you keep root.lrp around until you learn linuxrc and the programs it calls). -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: It's what's for dinner! On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Mark Seiden wrote: > i'm a bit confused. i've successfully applied all the oxygen patches > to a linux 2.2.18 +lrp kernel, i think -- anyway, i can successfully > make bzImage (or zImage) with the .config i'm hoping for. > > but i don't yet understand how to make a bootable image, once i've got > a built kernel, and can't seem to find relevant documentation (or > anything in the archive) at sourceforge for developers who want to > start from scratch with a linux kernel... > > it looks like the lrp298 snapshot has a bin/mkidiot script that does > approximately the right thing, but i don't see the equivalent in the > oxygen patches... > > (have i missed a step in not loading a bunch of lrp stuff/utilities on > my development system?) > > (am i supposed to load up a root.lrp from the existing images or from > lrp298?) (i really want to build everything from scratch... maybe > not today, though...) > > (so i'd prefer not to start with an oxygen 11/2000 bootable image and > edit from there.) > > (thanks for any pointers. i'm a bit embarrassed to reveal my > newbie-ness at this...) > > _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel