HOW I CAN MAKE BOOTABLE FLOPPY DISKET 2003-12-27 - By Steven J. Yellin
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For some reason, your email came out completely in upper case. If you're
using only upper case within linux, nothing will work,
To understand the mkbootdisk command, do 'man mkbootdisk'. You normally
do not need the --device parameter, but if for some reason you are writing
on a second floppy drive, fd1, instead of the default fd0, '--device /dev/fd1'
tells that to the mkbootdisk program. You DO need the name of the kernel.
For example, the command 'mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd1 2.4.20-24' will put
kernel 2.4.20-24 on the floppy. To see what kernel you're using now, type
'uname -r'.
The resulting floppy will default to booting into the same root
directory as you've specified in /dev/fstab -- presumably the one you're
using when you run mkbootdisk, not the one on the other disk unless you
physically replace the old disk with its copy. But when you boot from the
floppy, you can specify where the root directory is. If your copy has
its root directory on /dev/hdc3, and 7.1 uses lilo on your boot floppy,
then I expect "linux root=/dev/hdc3" to work. I'm not sure because I
never have to do this.
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, OMER FAROOQ wrote:
> HI THERE
>
> I AM USEING LINUX 7.1 AND I WANT TO CREATE BOOTABLE FLOPPY
> HOW I CAN CREATE IT. I HAVE RUN MKBOOTDISK BUT I AM NOT GETTING THE OPTIONS
> LIKE
> MKBOOTDISK --DEVICE /DEV/FD1
> CAN SOME ONE EXPLAIN WHAT IS THIS.
> I HAVE COPIED MY ORIGINAL LINUX 7.1 H.D.D THROUGH GHOST TO ANOTHER H.D.D
> BUT WHEN I RUN THE COPIED H.D.D IT WILL STUCK ON BOOT: LINUX . FOR THIS
PURPOSE I AM TRYING TO
> CREATE BOOTABLE FLOPPY . PLEASE TELL ME HOW I CAN MAKE A FLOPPY WHIC CAN
BOOT MY
> COPIED H.D.D
>
> THANX
>
>
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