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boot floppy creation

 
ANITH PRABHAKAR .C
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‎05-27-2007 09:15 PM

‎05-27-2007 09:15 PM

boot floppy creation


Hi all,

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

Thanks in Advance
Anith Prabhakar.C
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Ivan Krastev
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‎05-27-2007 09:21 PM

‎05-27-2007 09:21 PM

Re: boot floppy creation

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
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Ivan Ferreira
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‎05-28-2007 01:53 AM

‎05-28-2007 01:53 AM

Re: boot floppy creation

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`
Por que hacerlo dificil si es posible hacerlo facil? - Why do it the hard way, when you can do it the easy way?
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Rasheed Tamton
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‎05-29-2007 01:05 AM

‎05-29-2007 01:05 AM

Re: boot floppy creation

Hi Anith,

mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.4.18-14

The last part is uname -r

Regards.
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