Re: Boot Disk from BDI

["David Preston" <dpreston-at-netlink.com.au>]

There's a freeware programe at this site
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux which You can install and use on a
Windows desktop to make boot disks, the program is called RawWrite for
Windows, written by John Newbigin, it might be worth a try.
David
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Ensor" <jensor-at-qis.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <emc-at-nist.gov>
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: Boot Disk from BDI


>
> 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
>
>
> Paul wrote:
> >
> > The boot images on the CD are for booting the CD only - If you need to
make a
> > boot floppy for your installed linux system, then you need to use:-
> > mkbootdisk 2.2.18-rtl3.0
> >
> > See -at-man mkbootdisk' for more info.
>
> I looked but wasn't able to get info that I needed.
>
>