mkbook problems

[Richard Robbie]

Title: mkbook problems

I am unable to successully execute "mkbook".  I logged on as "root" and encounter the following problems.

Case 1: "mkbook vmlinuz" - produces the following

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robbie:/# mkboot vmlinuz

Insert a floppy diskette into your boot drive, and press <Return>.

Creating a lilo bootdisk...
mkdir /tmp/boot687
mke2fs -q /dev/fd0
mke2fs 1.12, 9-Jul-98 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /tmp/boot687
cd /tmp/boot687
cp vmlinuz /boot/boot.b .
cp: vmlinuz: No such file or directory
set +e; cd /; umount /dev/fd0; rmdir /tmp/boot687

There was a problem creating the boot diskette.  Please make sure that
you inserted the diskette into the correct drive and that the diskette
is not write-protected.

Would you like to try again? (y/n) n

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Example 2:  "mkboot" produces the following

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Error: Can't read /boot/vmlinuz.

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The file permissions for vmlinuz are "lrwxrwxrwx" and the file "points" to boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12
     the permissions for boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12 are " rwxr-xr-x  ".

It appears that it's something trivial, like an incorrect path etc.  any help would be appreciated.


Thanks

dick robbie