Re: Making boot floppies for Sarge
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 04:39:57PM -0300, Gonzalo Sainz-Tr??paga???ga wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 15:59, Jim Seymour wrote:
> > I need to compile a new kernel for Sarge. How do I make a
> > rescue floppy disk?
> If you haven't replaced the installation kernel you can just use the
> bootdisk (rescue.bin) to boot.
> If you are using another kernel now you create a rescue disk with the
> "mkboot" program which comes in the debianutils package (that should
> already be installed).
> A debian rescue disk is nothing but a boot disk to whom you can pass a
> "root=/dev/hdX" parameter.
Thanks Gonzalo,
I'll give that a try today.
Later,
Jim Seymour
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