Rob Levy wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I wonder if I could get a little advise?
>
> I am using redhat 6.2 on an intel 686 where I'm attempting to build a
> couple of floppy diskette images to enable me to boot into single user
> mode to do filesystem recovery, etc. (I don't have access to a cdrom at
> this stage)
> I have created the boot disk and the root disk however I am having a
> little trouble with the root filesystem and the diskette size limitation
> ....
> The compressed root filesystem won't fit on the floppy (I have read the
> bootdisk HOWTO and seriously reduced the image but I guess this is where
> my problem lies - missing pam libs).
> At this stage I get the login prompt when booting from the boot aand
> root diskettes but it seems like the user authentication fails (I can't
> login, I get "login incorrect" messages).
>
> This leads me to two questions:
> 1 can I disable login/pam altogether as in the lilo "linux single"
> scenario (the PAM libraries take up a bundle of valuable space)
> 2 At one stage I attempted using mkbootdisk which resulted in a diskette
> boot using the /dev/hd? root filesystem (I need it to be independant of
> the hard disk).
>
> Any help would be graciously appreciated.
Rob I can't help you with the / file system stuff but have you considered
Tom's boot disk? way cool. BWT one thing you might rty is to format the
floppy as 1.7M disk to give you a little more room. I read somewhere that
this almost always works for any decent High Density floppy.
Bret
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