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

  • From: "Charles R. Hakari" <chakari@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 20:32:16 -0800

James,

Thanks for the info. I'll give it a try. I have been trying to boot the 
cdrom with Smart Boot Manager. I just can't get it to see the cdrom 
drive. I haven't done much research yet, but it may be the type drive 
Toshiba used on the Tecra 700 laptop. It may be treated as PCMCIA device.

>
>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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