no no no... not bad floppy. Tried other floppies as well. Any more guesses?
Basically my procedure is sth like this:
1. zeroed out /dev/ramdisk, mounted it and created everything on it w/ /bin
/dev /etc /lib /mnt /proc /sbin /tmp /usr /var
2. umount it and then dd if=/dev/ramdisk bs=1k | gzip -v9 >
/var/tmp/rootdisk.gz
3. checked the size of the .gz and it's within the capacity of a floppy.
4. dd if=/var/tmp/rootdisk.gz of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k
I'm wondering if it's the compression thing that doesn't work?? I tried
rawwrite another UNcompressed .img from redhat onto the same floppy and, at
least, it gets booted (though panicked at "no init").
At 13:16 08-03-99 ric, you wrote:
>Very possibly a bad floppy. You can use badblocks to check, or in a
>pinch, scandisk. Most of the ways of making boot and root disks in
>common use have _zero_ tolerance for any IO error, and floppies are
>pretty easy to damage.
>
>Lawson
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