[juneau-lug] Re: Making a Slackware 9.0 boot disk

How "old" of a Toshiba laptop is it? Are you sure that
the processor and processor speed is supported? For
instance, RedHat 9.0 requires a 400 mhz machine...

Stephen

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles R. Hakari" <chakari@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 10:30 pm
Subject: [juneau-lug] Making a Slackware 9.0 boot disk

> I am trying to get Slackware 9.0 intalled on my old Toshiba 
> laptop. 
> Since I can't boot from the CDROM, I have to make a boot disk. I 
> followed the following instructions, but I can't get the laptop to 
> boot 
> from the floppy.
> 
> ./makedisk name kernel
>           |    |
>           |    +- This is the name (and maybe path to) the kernel
>           |       you plan to use, such as bare.i/bzImage.
>           |
>           +- This is the name to give the disk, like bare.i.
> 
> This should automatically create the disk image in /tmp.  Next, 
> put a floppy
> disk in your drive.  If you need to format, use this command:
> 
> fdformat /dev/fd0u1440
> 
> Once the drive is formatted, write the image to the floppy.  For 
> example, if
> the name of the disk image is bare.i, use this command:
> 
> cat bare.i > /dev/fd0
> 
> 
> 
> The laptop compains about an invalid system disk. I have used 
> rawrite to 
> make boot disks for Redhat and Mandrake without problem. Any of 
> you guys 
> done this before?
> 
> Chuck Hakari
> 
> 
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