According to Bill Kocik: While burning my CPU.
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> > Hello, Thanks for your help, but I'm still trying to get a copy of
> > vmlinuz onto a floppy.
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> > > 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.
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> 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
If vmlinuz is a symlink to vmlinuz-2.0.35 (or whatever) then doing
'cp vmlinuz /mnt/floppy'
will result in vmlinuz-2.0.35 being copied to the floppy device and being
called "vmlinuz".
> 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:
Both should work for a boot disk, that can be confirmed from
/usr/src/linux/README
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> dd if=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.35 of=/mnt/floppy
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> 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".
Nope not nessasary, just, of=/mnt/floppy is enough.
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> Bill Kocik
> Information Systems
> Medar, Inc.
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Regards Richard.
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