Re: Boot Disk from BDI

[Paul <paul.corner-at-tesco.net>]

Hi Jack

Oh t**s - Forgot that supermount would probably interfere with anything that 
tries to write directly to fd0. Enter the following before using mkbootdsk:-

umount /mnt/floppy

Supermount is a small module that automatically mounts and unmounts the CDROM 
and floppy drives - For anyone migrating over from a DOS or Windows 
environment, this is a usefull function.

Regards, Paul


On Monday 31 December 2001 11:14 pm, Jack Ensor wrote:
> Paul -
> I am still unsuccessful in creating an emergency boot disk.
>
> From /home I issued the command:
>
> 	mkbootdisk 2.2.18-rtl3.0
>
> Linux returns:
>
> 	Insert a disk in dev/fd0      (I already had one there)
> 	Any information on the disk will be lost.
> 	Press <Enter> to continue or ^C to abort:
>
> I press enter and then I get the message:
>
> 	Mount: /dev/fd0 already mounted or /temp/mkbootdisk busy
> and then the normal prompt appears.
>
> What do I do now?  Normally if I want to see the files on a floppy I
> cd to /mnt/floppy and then ls -la and it lists the files okay.
>
> Jack