hi I have Red Hat 6.2. I am new to Linux and have been struggling along. I have Partition Magic, Win 95, & Linux on this system. I want to copy my boot floopy to hda8. I am on Linux now and want to use itfor everything I can. Any help would be greatly apreaciated. Thanks TomM

If i understood correct you want to keep a backup of your boot floppy on hda8.Type: >mkdir ~/backup (make a directory) >cd ~/backup (go there) >dd if=/dev/fd0 of=./boot.image (copy from floppy (/dev/fd0) to boot.image) And that's it.The contents of the floppy are now in the file called boot.image If you want to make another bootdisk type: >dd if=~/backup/boot.image of=/dev/fd0 The above assume that hda8 is where you installed linux.If not, use another directory (instead of backup) located on hda8

unisol, Thank you for responding. What I really want is to boot linux from hda8 useing Boot Magic instead of the floppy disk. But I will use the info you gave me to backup my boot floppy. And try to make another copy of it. I am afraid the floppy might fail some day and I will have to gp through the whole install & configuring process again. As I am new and not even good with DOS. You can see why I don't want to lose the things I did get running. I do spend most of free time on this site reading everthing that I can. I might be able to get what want with the info you gave me. I will mkboot. No I have hda5 6 7 8 9 10 . I couldn't configure LILO to boot Win 95 (hda1) or I would have used it. I used partition Magic to creat all these partitions and just edited them with disk druid at installation. Thanks TomM

Don't worry.If anything goes wrong you can download from the net boot/rescue floppies ,mini-distr of linux and even loadlin.exe (which allows you to boot linux from dos.)There are plenty of ways to gain access to a linux system.Anyway backing up the boot disk is not a bad idea Haven't used boot magic.Lilo works fine for me.You say you can't boot win95 with it.Is there an error message?Have you setup /etc/lilo.conf correctly? For reading try www.linuxdoc.org

Thanks again unisol, I will go read what you suggested. I really don't know what I am doing. I am still just fumbling around with stuff to until I get it working. I bought this Red Hat 6.2 through ebay. And Red Hat doesn't support me as I did not get a BOX from them. I don't blame them ofcourse, I am the cheap one. Next time I spring for the $40 delux package with support. Thanks a lot TomM