Re: VDQ: make boot floppy??

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On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 12:54, Dave Yantis wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 09:14:06 -0800, Joshua Andrews wrote:
> >Beartooth wrote:
> >
> >>    Where have they put it? The new find command doesn't seem
> >>to be much use unless you already know the exact name of what
> >>your're looking for -- and even then, I have my doubts ...
> 
> [snip]
> >
> >>
> >How about mkbootdisk?
> >
> >
> >
> 
> Also, won't this do it, too
> 
> dd if=/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192
> 
> Thanks,
> dy
> 
> (My first post...mainly a lurker)

Nope. A bootdisk is more than just a kernel. There is a loader
(syslinux) the kernel (vmlinuz), and an initial ramdisk (initrd)

Not a bad guess however.

-- 
Chris Kloiber




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