Thanks to many who tried to help me with my loadlin problem.
I was actually able to copy /boot/vmlinuz to a floppy, put it on my
C:\ drive and boot Linux with it ! !
However... when I boot from the the floppy bootdisk I have ppp support...
when I boot from loadlin ( the vmlinuz file from /boot ? ! ) no ppp !
If you don't mind... let's keep trying to find what I'm missing.
> >
> > >
> > > 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
>
> 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
>
> >
> > 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".
>
> Nope not nessasary, just, of=/mnt/floppy is enough.
>
> >
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> > Bill Kocik
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> >
>
>
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> Regards Richard.
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>
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