Re: Building a boot disk with initrd

2005-06-15 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Diesis wrote: > I'm stuck with this... > I have a Debian Woody system with root on raid, and I wish to upgrade it. > First of all, I wish to build a set of boot floppies that could be used > for booting and restart the complete system without troubles. if it is truly a work

Building a boot disk with initrd

2005-06-15 Thread Diesis
I'm stuck with this... I have a Debian Woody system with root on raid, and I wish to upgrade it. First of all, I wish to build a set of boot floppies that could be used for booting and restart the complete system without troubles. I've tried # mkboot /dev/fd0 but this create a floppy with a v

Re: building a boot disk

1998-10-11 Thread Kent West
On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, tracheotomy_bob wrote: > I would really like to be able to build a system up from scratch. While = > I appreciate the excellence that is debian, I find that for = > understanding how everything fits together building a system up from = > scratch helps. Initially I only had th

Re: building a boot disk

1998-10-09 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-"tracheotomy_bob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I would really like to be able to build a system up from scratch. While I appreciate the excellence that is debian, I find that for understanding how everything fits together building a system up from scratch helps. Initially I only had the debian inst

building a boot disk

1998-10-09 Thread tracheotomy_bob
I would really like to be able to build a system up from scratch. While I appreciate the excellence that is debian, I find that for understanding how everything fits together building a system up from scratch helps. Initially I only had the debian install disks, and I had to ftp XFree86 mys