>
> Hello, Thanks for your help, but I'm still trying to get a copy of
> vmlinuz onto a floppy.
>
> > Here's how I did it. First, mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> Did that, watched the floppy drive light up and access the diskette.
> > Then, cp boot/vmlinuz /mnt/floppy
> > Your floppy mount point or the location of vmlinuz may differ,
> Still getting an error message saying there is no such file, even
> though I can see it is there when I ls that directory.
> > but it worked with Red Hat 5.0 and 5.1,
> I have both of those, so I'm sure when we figure out what I'm not
> doin' all will be well - Thanks again.
Sounds to me like vmlinuz is symbolically linked to something else
in that directory (probably vmlinuz-2.0.35 or whatever kernel version
you're using) which is usually the case. Try "file /boot/vmlinuz". If
it's a symbolic link, it'll say so and it'll tell you what it's linked
to. Copy that to your disk. Incidentally, if you're trying to make a
boot disk I believe you should be using "dd" instead of "cp", but I'm
not positive that you have to. After mounting your floppy, to use "dd"
the command would be:
dd if=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.35 of=/mnt/floppy
It *may* be that instead of saying "of=/mnt/floppy" you have to say
"of=/mnt/floppy/vmlinuz" but I don't think so. Try "man dd".
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