Re: Need to make boot disc

[Jo Hoffmann <jxh@dcs.ed.ac.uk>]

> When I installed Potato I made a boot disc when the installation program
> asked if I wanted to.
> 
> The problem is that I managed to spill water on the disc and thus
> destroy it. How can I make a new boot disc from my up and running
> system?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> -- 
> Preben Randhol -- [randhol@pvv.org] -- <http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/>
>          "Det eneste trygge stedet i verden er inne i en fortelling."
>                                                       -- Athol Fugard
> 
> 

Have a look at the Bootdisk Howto for instance here 
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/index.html

If you want to create a boot/root disk, then it can get quite complicated.

But if you only want a disk that boots and uses your root partition on the
hard disk, then things are a bit easier.
Just copy your current kernel with dd onto your floppy, and then set the root partition
with rdev. 
(Tell me if you need more info)

Jo 

P.S. Just thinking about it. Easier still might be to just grab one of the
rescue disks provided with the CD's or from an ftp server.