Re: seeking help with creating rootdisk!

2000-09-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 01 Sep 2000, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Hi John, > > > He's on an Alpha processor. There doesn't appear to be an > > "mkbootdisk" for Alpha. They have a different boot > > procedure anyway. > > I thought he was talking about a *root* disk. > Pretty much the same thing when it come

Re: seeking help with creating rootdisk!

2000-09-01 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi John, > He's on an Alpha processor. There doesn't appear to be an > "mkbootdisk" for Alpha. They have a different boot > procedure anyway. I thought he was talking about a *root* disk. Rye :), Leonard. _

Re: seeking help with creating rootdisk!

2000-08-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Mike McColm wrote: > See the Linux Bootdisk HOWTO > (http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/index.html), particularly > the "Building a root filesystem" section > (http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/buildroot.html). > >From a later email, I saw that he's wanti

Re: seeking help with creating rootdisk!

2000-08-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Hello Kabir, > > > Can anyone pls suggest me with the easiest way to create a rootdisk in a > > floppy? > > Get the rescue.img from RedHat 6.0 and dd it to a floppy. Dunno why it is not > available on 6.1 and 6.2. > He's on an Alpha pro

Re: seeking help with creating rootdisk!

2000-08-30 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Kabir, > Can anyone pls suggest me with the easiest way to create a rootdisk in a > floppy? Get the rescue.img from RedHat 6.0 and dd it to a floppy. Dunno why it is not available on 6.1 and 6.2. CU, Le

Re: seeking help with creating rootdisk!

2000-08-30 Thread Mike McColm
See the Linux Bootdisk HOWTO (http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/index.html), particularly the "Building a root filesystem" section (http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/buildroot.html). "Kabir, Rezwanul" wrote: > > Hi > > Can anyone pls suggest me with the easiest way to

RE: seeking help with creating rootdisk!

2000-08-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, John Losey wrote: > Sorry, there was a typo in the message I sent. I tried "find / -name > mkbootdisk" and "man mkbootdisk" (with the mk) and got no results on my RH > 6.2 running on an Alpha Processor. Is this just an Intel kind of thing? > > Don't think so. Hang on a sec

RE: seeking help with creating rootdisk!

2000-08-30 Thread John Losey
AIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 10:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: seeking help with creating rootdisk! On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, John Losey wrote: > Where does one find bootdisk? I've done a "find / -name bootdisk" w/o > results as well as "man

Re: seeking help with creating rootdisk!

2000-08-30 Thread Bret Hughes
[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 8:03 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: seeking help with creating rootdisk! > > On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Kabir, Rezwanul wrote: > > Hi > > > > Can anyone pls suggest me with the easiest way to create a root

RE: seeking help with creating rootdisk!

2000-08-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, John Losey wrote: > Where does one find bootdisk? I've done a "find / -name bootdisk" w/o > results as well as "man bootdisk" and am told that no man entry can be > found. I've got a plain vanilla RH 6.2 install done from the ISO images > running on an Alpha processor. Is t

RE: seeking help with creating rootdisk!

2000-08-30 Thread John Losey
I'll need to install for this? If so, where would I find it? Thanks, John -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 8:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: seeking help with creating rootdisk! On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Kabir,

Re: seeking help with creating rootdisk!

2000-08-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Kabir, Rezwanul wrote: > Hi > > Can anyone pls suggest me with the easiest way to create a rootdisk in a > floppy? I thought I would copy the root directory from an existing system > to a ramdisk, modify it according to my need and finally compress it. But > I'm getting

Re: seeking help with creating rootdisk!

2000-08-30 Thread Chuck Mead
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Kabir, Rezwanul spewed into the bitstream: KR> KR> KR>Hi KR> KR>Can anyone pls suggest me with the easiest way to create a rootdisk in a KR>floppy? I thought I would copy the root directory from an existing system KR>to a ramdisk, modify it according to my need and fina

Re: seeking help with creating rootdisk!

2000-08-30 Thread burk
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Kabir, Rezwanul wrote: > Can anyone pls suggest me with the easiest way to create a rootdisk in a > floppy? I thought I would copy the root directory from an existing system Why not download Tom's root/boot? I've never had it fail me yet. http://www.toms.net/rb/ Hope