Re: creating a bootdisk

2000-02-22 Thread Bart Szyszka
> How could I create a new bootdisk like created the debian installer after the > installation? I think it is not enough 'dd if=zImage of=/dev/fd0' only > because I see some syslinux related files. Hmm... I haven't seen this mentioned yet: /usr/sbin/mkboot /vmlinuz Would that work? I do it whe

Re: creating a bootdisk

2000-02-22 Thread Sven Gaerner
Have a look at the Bootdisk HowTo Sven Attila Csosz wrote: > How could I create a new bootdisk like created the debian installer after the > installation? I think it is not enough 'dd if=zImage of=/dev/fd0' only > because I see some syslinux related files. > > Thanks > Attila > > > > -- > -

Re: creating a bootdisk

2000-02-22 Thread Attila Csosz
Where is the syslinux program? This program is it on the debian boot disk! Attila On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 07:44:45AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > dd if=/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 conv=sync > rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/your_root_partition > rdev -R /dev/fd0 1 -- --

Re: creating a bootdisk

2000-02-22 Thread Oki DZ
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Attila wrote: > I'd prefer a method based on 'dd' and 'cp'. It is possible? > > Thanks > Attila > > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 21:57, Attila Csosz wrote: > >> How could I create a new bootdisk like created the debian installer after > >> the > >> installation? I think it

Re: creating a bootdisk

2000-02-22 Thread Sean Johnson
Attila wrote: > > I'd prefer a method based on 'dd' and 'cp'. It is possible? If you have the debianutils package installed, you will have a spiffy little program (shell script actually) called mkboot whose sole purpose in life is to make a boot disk. Sean

Re: creating a bootdisk

2000-02-21 Thread Attila
I'd prefer a method based on 'dd' and 'cp'. It is possible? Thanks Attila > On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 21:57, Attila Csosz wrote: >> How could I create a new bootdisk like created the debian installer after >> the >> installation? I think it is not enough 'dd if=zImage of=/dev/fd0' only >> because

Re: creating a bootdisk

2000-02-21 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 21:57, Attila Csosz wrote: > How could I create a new bootdisk like created the debian installer after the > installation? I think it is not enough 'dd if=zImage of=/dev/fd0' only > because I see some syslinux related files. The easiest way to do this is to boot your res