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


On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Charles R. Hakari wrote:

> 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,

Try using dd instead of cat.  cat might be having trouble creating a file
system on the floppy.

dd if=bare.i of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k

(The bs=18k is optional, it just makes writing to a 1.44M floppy more
efficient.)

Cheers,

James


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