Pardon my ignorance. Is Mandrake a RedHat clone? If it is, the images
are in the directory images on the cdrom. Find a good floppy with _no_
bad blocks. You can use badblocks to check it, but there is a man page
for badblocks and I'm not going to let you get away without reading any
man pages. You may as well find 2.
Put the floppy in the drive, but don't mount it.
copy the image to the floppy:
dd if=<cdrom>/images/boot.img of=/dev/fd0 obs=18k
do the same with supp.img, in case the 486 has scsi, or you ever need to
rescue your pentium from a hd failure, or just to have it around.
That's all there is to it.
Lawson
>< Microsoft free environment
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On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Please speak in idiot terms so I understand.
> I installed Mandrake 5.3.2 on my Pentium 100 that would boot to cdrom,
but
> now I need to install it to an old 486 that will only boot to a floppy.
> How can I create a install floppy for my 486 off the pentium??
> Speak slowly and Thanx
> C. Temple
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