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Boot disk swiped, how to make one?



Folks:

I installed Slink on my system but had not installed LILO
to make it bootable directly from the HD. Someone swiped the
boot disk. 

Question:  Is it possible, given the contents of the /etc/fstab 
file and a knowledge of where the  kernel is located 
(/boot/vmlinuz-2.036) to run LILO from a boot disk -- say
"Tom's Unix on a floppy" and make the floppy boot the kernel 
on the hard disk?

If it is possible, would some kind soul please tell me how to 
do this feat. 

(Mea Culpa: I well understand the importance of duplicating 
the boot disk. I didn't do it this time and I have a Windows 
98 only machine as retribution.)

My machine has:

	126 Meg RAM
	100 MHz motherboard
	K6 2-350
	512 K cache
	9.? Gig ide HD
	1.4 floppy
	Yamaha sound card
	SiS 6326 8M AGP video 
	KDE 17" monitor
	3Com509 net card

Many thanks to all who support us in the trenches.

--David Teague dbt@elentari.cs.wcu.edu
Debian GNU/Linux Becuase software crashes should not be the norm.
		 Reboots are for hardware and kernel updates.
	         



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