[juneau-lug] Making a Slackware 9.0 boot disk
- From: "Charles R. Hakari" <chakari@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 22:30:47 -0800
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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