Hi, I was wondering how you make extra boot disks when you are in the operating system. In this case it would be Red Hat 8.0. I was thinking of making a bootable CD also. This is just because I don't want to install a linux bootloader on this particular machine. If I should use dd, then what image do I need to use? If I update my kernel, should I then be making a new bootdisk? Thanks for any advice.

I can't find the option to make a boot floppy in RedHat 8.0. I rebooted to RedHat 7.3 to find out how it was done. I looked at the menu option there to find what command was executed. It was /usr/sbin/qmkbootdisk but I can't find this on my Redhat 8.0 installation or on any of the three installation CDs. I believe the source is on the first source disk (disk 4) but I have not burned these disks yet. I found the precompiled rpm on the net using a google search. program: qmkbootdisk-1.0.1-6 RPM for i386 file: qmkbootdisk-1.0.1-6.i386.rpm from: http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/rawhide/1.0/i386/ RedHat/RPMS/qmkbootdisk-1.0.1-6.i386.html Just install the rpm: # rpm -ivh qmkbootdisk-1.0.1-6.i386.rpm To make a new boot disk run the command: # qmkbootdisk Works fine for me now Ed

Thanks, I'll give that a try. Any thoughts on making a bootable CD? And whether a kernel update would require updating the boot disk/CD?