Keith O'Connell wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have clearly misunderstood the making of boot disks and would like some
> guidance. I made some for each machine here in case or emergency, and thought
> I would test them, and each one halted with a kernel panic.
>
> I assumed that a floppy in the drive of
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:09:20PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Which file should i use (/vmlinuz or /boot/vmlinuz2.2.17pre19), and how can i
> make it work?
dd if=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17pre19 of=/dev/fd0
rdev /dev/fd0 $(rdev | cut -d ' ' -f 1)
rdev -R /dev/fd0 1
If you're not sure about
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:09:20PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| thanks to everyone who helped with my mformat problem, but i am
| still unable to get my boot disks working so i though i'd write
| another e-mail in a little bit greater detail
IMO it is much easier to make a boot disk with grub
Quoting Ray Percival ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Where would one get boot/driver disks for testing on the ftp sites
> there does not appear to be anything under disksi386 under
> testing.
I think you just install potato and upgrade. I imagine that boot disks
is one of the last things to be made before
John Carline wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Would anyone by any chance know what would make boot disks
> stop working?
>
mumble! mumble! curse!
Just in case anyone is interested, I now know.
If the floppy cable is not "perfectly" connected to the motherboard, it's
possible
for the drive to read, writ
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