Re: Boot disk swiped, how to make one?

[Peter Berlau <pberlau@muenster.de>]

On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 02:17:23PM -0500, David B. Teague wrote:
Hi David,
[..]
You can create a boot-floppy by doing the following steps:
1. format a diskette, under 
   hamm:   fdromat
   slink:  superformat /dev/fd0
   (:mformat -s18 -t80 -h2 -S2 -M512 a:)

2. cp /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 /dev/fd0
(note this is, if You have installed Your Kernel (2.0.36) 
 with kernel-package, so the actual kernel is under /boot,
 otherwise the kernel could be under /vmlinuz
 [ if You using the kernelpackage this is only a link to
   the /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36, if not I assume it is the kernel 
   itself ] 
)

3. rdev	       # this will "tell" You the correct boot-partition
               # e.g. (for outputof rdev)
/dev/sda7 /

4. rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/sda7 # connect to the boot-partition see 3.

5. rdev -v /dev/fd0 -2  # extended vga-mode (50 lines) not really needed
                          but fine :-)

6. rdev -R /dev/fd0 1   # bootpartition first read-only

cu
-- 
Peter Berlau 
pberlau@muenster.de