ok I'm sorry for my lack of detale . here is what happens. I run the makebootdisk command like this. makebootdisk /vmlinuz then I go through the steps of formatting the disk using the menu I'm presented with, that goes fine. then I go to create a lilo boot disk and it returns the affore mentioned error. any help would be greatlyt appreciated. thanks in advance. -- Shaun I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong. -- Lucy Van Pelt email: shauno at goanna.net.au icq: 76958435 On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Frank Carmickle wrote: > Hi Shaun > > We need more details. What do you mean your trying to create a > bootdisk? What is returning you this output. > > On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote: > > > Hi guys. > > when I try to create a bootdisk for my recently compiled kernel, I get an > > error message saying: > > fatel: open /dev/fd0 no such file or directory > > I know I have the drivers for the floppy drive compiled in but I'm not > > sure what else to do. > >