On Thu, December 21, 2006 11:11 pm, Martin Visser wrote:
> I think you will find that mkbootdisk is trying to write to a file which
> is basically a loop-mounted filesystem the size of the target floppy.
> Unfortunately I think your kernel is far too big to write to a floppy.


thanks, Martin, yes, I eventually figured that out, the floppy was already
full with whatever was written to it from start of mkbootdisk.

I guess I don't really need a boot floppy disk,

I probably should make a boot CD, though, the machine has no cd writer


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Voytek

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