Re: Problem mounting custom boot disk

1999-09-14 Thread Craig H. Block
David Kanter wrote: > > Last night I compiled a new kernel and had it sent to a boot floppy instead > of the hard drive (using the standard Debian tools for compiling a new > kernel). Booting from the floppy is fine. However, I'd like to mount the > floppy and get the kernel image off of it, mo

Re: Problem mounting custom boot disk

1999-09-14 Thread Craig H. Block
You won't be able to mount the floppy since "make zdisk" does not create a file system on the floppy. Try dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/zImage where the first parameter is your floppy drive and the second is the path and filename where you want the image copied. Normally you would boot off the floppy to tes

Re: Problem mounting custom boot disk

1999-09-14 Thread Quant-X UNIX and Linux Support
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 09:37:20AM -0500, David Kanter wrote: > Last night I compiled a new kernel and had it sent to a boot floppy instead > of the hard drive (using the standard Debian tools for compiling a new > kernel). Booting from the floppy is fine. However, I'd like to mount the > floppy

Re: Problem mounting custom boot disk

1999-09-14 Thread lexchive
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 09:37:20AM -0500, David Kanter wrote: > Last night I compiled a new kernel and had it sent to a boot floppy instead > of the hard drive (using the standard Debian tools for compiling a new > kernel). Booting from the floppy is fine. However, I'd like to mount the > floppy