On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Kabir, Rezwanul spewed into the bitstream:
KR>
KR>
KR>Hi
KR>
KR> Can anyone pls suggest me with the easiest way to create a rootdisk in a
KR>floppy? I thought I would copy the root directory from an existing system
KR>to a ramdisk, modify it according to my need and finally compress it. But
KR>I'm getting complains about unavailability of space in the ramdisk and also
KR>it seems to be a fairly tedious task..
KR> Thanks in advance..
KR> --rezwanul
man mkbootdisk
MKBOOTDISK(8) MKBOOTDISK(8)
NAME
mkbootdisk - creates a stand-alone boot floppy for the running
system
SYNOPSIS
mkbootdisk [--version] [--noprompt] [--verbose]
[--mkinitrdargs <args>] [--device <devicefile>]
<kernel>
DESCRIPTION
mkbootdisk creates a boot floppy appropriate for the running
system. The boot disk is entirely self-
contained, and includes an initial ramdisk image which loads any
necessary SCSI modules for the sys
tem. The created boot disk looks for the root filesystem on the
device suggested by /etc/fstab. The
only required argument is the kernel version to put onto the boot
floppy.
OPTIONS
--device <devicefile>
The boot image is created on <devicefile>fR. If --device is
not specified, /dev/fd0 is used.
--mkinitrdargs <args> Passes <args>fR to mkinitrd (which is
used to create the initial ramdisk
image for the boot floppy). Any mkinitrd arguments may be
specified.
--noprompt Normally, mkbootdisk instructs the user to
insert a floppy and waits for confirma
tion before continuing. If --noprompt is specified, no
prompt is displayed.
--verbose
Instructs mkbootdisk to talk about what it's doing as it's
doing it. Normally, there is no
output from mkbootdisk.
--version
Displays the version of mkbootdisk and exits.
SEE ALSO
mkinitrd(1),
AUTHOR
Erik Troan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tue Mar 31 1998
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