According to Karl F. Larsen: While burning my CPU.
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> Jeron, a boot disk can not be mounted or read by human eyes. It can only
> be run as a boot disk and you can watch the mini linux load and get an
> idea what is loaded.
Contray to Karls statement!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You can COPY the data from a disk.
The answer is;
cp /dev/fd0 /tmp
Will copy the contens of /dev/fd0 (if it has a floppy in it of course) to
/tmp and the file will be called fd0, it will of course be mostly junk to
read but you "will" be albe to read what kernel version it is and what
compile number it has.
Futher more there are possably programs around which could convert the data
to readable text. (Altho' i dont know what would be gained by that).
If you want to know what is compiled into the kernel on that disk, just use
it to boot, then use 'dmesg' to get an idea of what hardware which you have
is supported by that kernel version.
So Jeroen CAN "copy" a bootdisk to his HD and then make multiple copies on
floppys, the only thing he "possably" will need to do is rename fd0 to
zImage before he copies it to a clean disk. ( Its raw data so it might not
even need to be renamed).
Other things needed to be taken into consideration are;
Use 'rdev' if the boot disk is to be used on any other /dev/hd!! than it
was made on.
Ask ourselfs, why realy do i want to do all this.
Simply makeing a new kernel using zdisk instead of zImage will copy the
image to disk without any hassel, then one will know what is in the kernel.
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> On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Jeroen wrote:
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > I try to mount my bootdisk 'cause I got a few different ones
> > that I've tryd out but I don't know the different options I've
> > selected while compiling the kernel.
> > So what I want to do now is mount my best bootdisk and make
> > a few copies of it .
> > I got to specify a type of FS but I won't accept anny
> > (well, I even don't know if a bootdisk has a FS...)
> > So, how do I mount a bootdisk?
> > Thanx in advance,
> > Jeroen
> >
> > --
> > ***WE WILL EITHER FIND A WAY, OR MAKE ONE***
> > Hannibal
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> >
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> Best wishes
>
> - Karl F. Larsen, 3310 East Street, Las Cruces,NM (505) 524-3303 -
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Regards Richard.
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