topic Re: boot floppy creation in Operating System - Linux

boot floppy creation

ANITH PRABHAKAR .C — Mon, 28 May 2007 04:15:12 GMT

Hi all,

can anybody provide me a procedure for creating a boot floppy in RedHat Linux ES 4 ....

Thanks in Advance
Anith Prabhakar.C

Re: boot floppy creation

Ivan Krastev — Mon, 28 May 2007 04:21:02 GMT

See this docs from their FAQ's :

http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_79_4388.shtm

http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_41_186.shtm

regards,
ivan

Re: boot floppy creation

Ivan Ferreira — Mon, 28 May 2007 08:53:54 GMT

You can create a boot disk with mkbootdisk. Current kernels are too big to fit in a floppy, or normally, servers does not have floppy disks anymore, so you can create an iso image and burn it to CD.

/sbin/mkbootdisk --iso --device `uname -r`

Re: boot floppy creation

Rasheed Tamton — Tue, 29 May 2007 08:05:53 GMT

Hi Anith,

mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.4.18-14

The last part is uname -r

Regards.