On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, James W. Lindenschmidt wrote: -|Greetings, everyone. -| -|I just migrated from RedHat over to Debian potato and I'm thrilled so -|far. -| -|But, I think my boot disk is defective, since it takes 5-7 minutes for -|the -| -|Loading Linux.............. -| -|process to complete from /dev/fd0 before Linux actually boots. I suspect -|I have a bad floppy, and I want to make a new boot floppy. -| -|I've tried going back into dbootstrap to make it from there, but it -|won't work. It says my disk is either write protected or I'm not using -|the first disk drive, despite the fact that /dev/fd0 whirs before I get -|this error message. I've tried 5 different newly formatted disks, and I -|always get this error. -| -|Is there any other way to make a boot disk? I need to use this -|temporarily until I can install LILO. -|
To make a boot floppy: dd if=Your_Kernel of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k rdev /dev/fd0 Your_Root_Partition rdev -R /dev/fd0 1 If you change your kernel or move your root you will have to remake your floppy. -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
