Thanks for the help. Used Yast2 as Glenn suggested, but that makes an install disk. To boot into the installed system from it you have to boot into install at lightoff. Leave the cd out of the tray answer the install questions until you get to the install menu. Select install. That takes you to a new menu that has boot installed system as an option. Select that. Then answer the question that wants to know what partition to boot. Then just sit back, put your hands in your pockets and watch the bootup scroll until it reaches the kde login screen. It's slow and cumbersome, but as it's only for a backup to the normal disk it ain't bad. Although it would be nice to just copy the boot disk from floppy disk to floppy disk. Thanks again guys. Now I don't have to worry about the dog eating the boot disk.
Lee zohar wrote: > > 1)2nd CD > 2)boot: > immediately TAB > 3)manual > 4)select language, keyboard layout,etc. > 5)YAST1 > 6)settings > 7)system info > this is the way I created bootdisk after the installation. But mine is > 7.1 pro with 7 CD. I can go only till 5 even for complete installation. > What is in 6th and 7th I do not know. > > try [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On > Behalf Of Glenn Williams > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 1:02 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Copying Boot disk. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 12:08 PM > Subject: Copying Boot disk. > > > Recently built a quad boot (Win98/Mandrake 8.0/W3.1b/SuSe 7.2) box. To > > keep down traffic congestion in the mbr I boot into the SuSe using a > > floppy boot disk. For safety's sake I want to make a few duplicate > boot > > disks. No matter how I try to go about it I get an error message that > > says the floppy drive can't recognize the file system on the floppy > boot > > disk, except in Win where the error messages claims that the floppy > boot > > disk isn't formatted. How do you make a copy of a linux boot floppy in > > general and SuSe in particular. > > > > Lee > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-users mailing list > > Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > > > > I have run into this problem, as well. I finally found out that the > distro > I was using, installed a Minix file system on the floppy before copying > the > boot data to the disk. YMMV. I think I was running a SuSE distro at > the > time. Seems to me they used the minix fs to save space on the floppy. > > If you are running SuSE 7.2 or 7.3 Pro, check the Reference Manual - > look in > the index for boot disks or rescue disks. Sorry I can't give you more > specific information. > > OTOH, since you *are* running a recent SuSE distro, you should be able > to > make a duplicate in YaST 2. Look at YaST 2=>Control Center=>System, and > then under boot disks or rescue disks - I'm kinda hazy on the last stop, > there. > > HTH > > 73 de Glenn > > Glenn Williams - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Registered Linux User # 135678 - since 1994 > Amateur Radio Packeteer since 1988 > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
