scr (whoknows@onlinehome.de) wrote: > I created both floppies under RH 5.1 on the same machine > on which I'm trying to install potato. > > The FAT formatted floppy: > mkfs -t msdos /dev/fd0 > mcopy root.bin a: > > Results in (using load_ramdisk=1 at Milo prompt) > RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0 That won't work, you can't "copy" the images to disk. You have to use dd on a UNIX/Linux system or rawrite on a (yuck) DOS system. > The unformatted floppy: > dd if=root.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 conv=sync; sync > > Results in (again, using load_ramdisk=1) > ufs_read_super: bad magic number > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00 Hmm, that should have worked. I'd suspect bad floppies or bad images. Where did you get the images from? I'd suggest trying different set of disks. I have had (and still do) a lot of problems with floppys. They work ok for storing data, but fail when used for holding kernel/boot images. > So should I give tar a try? Or ext2fs, minix, ... > formatted floppies? I'd try a brand new set of disks first. Then let me know if it works or not. You should have 3 disks. One boot, one root, and a ramdisk. I don't ever remember having to format them prior to using dd, but I guess it wouldn't hurt trying. Ron
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