RE: Copying Boot disk.
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
Re: Copying Boot disk.
Previously, you (Bruce Marshall) wrote: On Friday 11 January 2002 16:42 pm, Lee wrote: 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 Did you try the method I suggested for copying your original boot floppy? using 'dd' ?? Yeah, only it didn't work. Kept getting either no such device or no such file (even in root). I think it may have something to do with SuSe 7.2 keeping floppy in a file called /media. Tried substituting /media/floppy and /media/fd0 for /device/floppy and fd0 but it didn't work. But then, we're dealing withthe folks who invented the panzerwagon beetle. Lee P.S. Please disregard any mispellings. I'm using peanut Linux now for a hoot and the V-mail doesn't have a spell corrector. So, I've got to wing it for spelling and typos. -- ++ + Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 01/11/02 16:48 + ++ All that trembles doesn't fall. -- Russian proverb ___ 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
Re: Copying Boot disk.
On Friday 11 January 2002 13:04 pm, Lee wrote: Did you try the method I suggested for copying your original boot floppy? using 'dd' ?? Yeah, only it didn't work. Kept getting either no such device or no such file (even in root). I think it may have something to do with SuSe 7.2 keeping floppy in a file called /media. Tried substituting /media/floppy and /media/fd0 for /device/floppy and fd0 but it didn't work. But then, we're dealing withthe folks who invented the panzerwagon beetle. I hope you didn't mount the floppy first (which is the only way it would be placed as /media/floppy Don't mount the floppy. You're going to copy the floppy to a disk file and then re-write the disk file to a new floppy. No mounts required. -- ++ + Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 01/11/02 18:43 + ++ Constants aren't; variables don't. ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Copying boot disk
Hello, Lee: I don't wish to belabor this point. Evidently I was misunderstood, or perhaps there were errors in what I wrote. Four or 5 months ago, I tried to make a copy of the LILO boot floppy that was created when I installed SuSE Linux 7.2 I discovered it was impossible to do so. I later read that the reason it can't be copied has to do with the unique file system installed on the floppy disk before the boot info is copied to the disk. Ron White related a similar experience, IIRC. I believe he wrote to SuSE to ask why he was unable to copy his LILO boot floppy. As I recall, he did not get a satisfactory explanation. I sent a more detailed message to you privately in hopes it would be clearer than the vague procedure I outlined in my first reply to you. Moments ago, to prove (again) to myself that it could be done, I duplicated that procedure, and created a LILO boot floppy, not an installation boot disk. Here's what I did: Click the YaST2 icon in the panel. Click Control Center=System=Configure Boot Mode. A Custom LILO Installation dialog appears. There are 4 radio buttons; click the 2nd button (Create boot floppy). You may not be prompted to insert a (IBM) formatted floppy; do so anyway. I was lucky - several nights ago, we had a 1 hour power outage, complete with surges and sags. Both my Linux/Windows XP machines were running. When the dust settled, I could not boot into this Linux automatically using the LILO on the hard drive. I whipped out my handy-dandy LILO boot floppy, repaired LILO on the hard disk and went merrily on my way. Best regards, Glenn -- Glenn Williams - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #135678 Powered by SuSE 7.2 Linux Professional ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Copying boot disk
- Original Message - From: Dave Anselmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 7:17 PM Subject: Re: Copying boot disk [whole lotta snippin'] I'm not sure what you mean by a boot floppy. If you mean a floppy that boots a kernel it contains (and probably mounts / as a ramdisk contained on another floppy) then what you did or dd are both good ways to make another. Well, as I said, I was unable to read the LILO floppy by any means I knew of, back then. I *assume* there's a copy of LILO on the disk, and it simply runs LILO to boot the installed system(s). In SuSE 7.2 and 7.3, creating the LILO floppy is an option offered during the installation. Sometimes it is *not* an option - it is done by default. In just such a case, that was initially the reason I wanted to copy it (to a file on the hard drive) - so I could then use a readable copy to build my /etc/lilo.conf on the hard drive, which the installation failed to create on my hard drive. I didn't try the method Bruce suggested - but I am sure I will do so at my next opportunity, since it's a little easier than the YaST2 method. [snip] Regards, 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
Alternate. was Re: Copying boot disk
On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 14:22, Glenn Williams wrote: [snip] From: Dave Anselmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] I dont' have floppies, period, on any of my systems. (well ok, one ls120 external) this leaves me exposed to boot problems. the answer is, boot from *any* cd-bootable linux distro and type the magic words linux single root=/dev/somewhere boot=/dev/somewhere_else noinitrd all verbs except noinitrd are optional in the sense that they are dependant on what exactly it is you're trying to 'get at'. -- http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
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
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
