[lug] RFI -- Making a boot floppy under Slackware

[Shannon Johnston]

Did you use?
   /sbin/mkbootdisk /dev/fd0 2.2.xx 


Shannon Johnston




On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, B O'Fallon wrote:

> I want to make a boot floppy for Slackware.
> 
> I've tried using the setup program, and, while it says that has made a
> lilo floppy (and the programs are on it), my system ignores it upon
> booting. I've also tried Running Linux's method of using
> 
>     dd if=/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0
> 
> (since I found the vmlinuz image under the / directory) but this
> doesn't work either.
> 
> Could someone show the commands that should to be issued for creating
> a boot floppy?
> 
> Thanx.
> 
> B. O'Fallon
> 
> 
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