-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 19 May 2002 03:29 pm, Eddie Strohmier wrote:
> I need to make a boot floppy to install RH 7.3 on my machine as I can > not boot from CD. I am finding the boot.img to large to fit on a > standard 1.44 floppy. Is there a way around this? Do I need a larger > floppy disk? When I have installed 6.2 in the past I never had a > problem with floppy size but I guess that boot.img is getting larger. I > was using rawrite.exe from the redhat cd on an old Windoze 98 machine > via dos emulation. If I were to use dd what is the format of that > command to place that file on a floppy. I still wonder of using dd > would allow the boot.img to fit on a 1.44 floppy. What .img file are you trying to use? On the CD, images/boot.img should fit with no trouble. ls -alh /mnt/cdrom/images/boot.img - -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1.4M To use dd: dd if=/mnt/cdrom/images/boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.2 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjzoBtcACgkQn/07WoAb/SusYACfYAl3Dra/ds7L4fpcqwZb9Y1Q jlcAmgJDwRu9CrBGZ3pDZ5irGKPwAP5K =YWKB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
