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Name: rs264 Date: December 26, 2003 at 18:06:54 Pacific OS: RedHat 9 CPU/Ram: p4 w/256 MB
Comment:
I have a dell laptop which has RH9 installed and is set up to boot from a floppy. The floppy got accidently erased and my question is: can I just make a boot floppy from the "bootdisk.img" on the install cd or do I have to make one specific for my system? I'm new to linux and I would appreciate all help! Thanks!
Name: taurus Date: December 26, 2003 at 18:16:35 Pacific
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You should be able to boot from the first CD of the RedHat Linux 9.0 and choose rescure from the manual... It will give you a chance to create another bootable floppy disk for your system. If not, you can always "dump" the image of your system into a floppy disk after it's up and running,
dd if=/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0
taurus
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Response Number 2
Name: rs264 Date: December 27, 2003 at 13:39:59 Pacific
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I tried booting from the cd and entered "linux rescue," but it never gave an option to make a boot disk. It just makes a sysimage and has you reboot the system. When I reboot it asks for the boot disk...which is my original prob. I'm going to try a new installation on a diff partition and try and make boot floppy from that install. Thanks for the help RS
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