Hi Bill! On Wed, 06 Feb 2002, Bill Wohler wrote: > The creation of boot floppies used to occur during the installation of > kernel-image. However, when I just installed 2.4.17, I wasn't asked to > create a boot floppy. And I want to create one. > > I discovered mkrescue but every operation resulted in some sort of an > error, not the least of which was trying to cram a 3.3 MB initrd image > and a 650 kB kernel onto a 1.44 MB floppy. I'm still without a boot > floppy and having had dire need of them in the past, I am very > interested in making another. > > Why was the creation of the boot floppy dropped from the installation > of kernel-image? What is the alternative?
if you just need a boot disk to boot you system, not a rescue disk you
might want to use mkboot
mkboot [-r rootpartition] [-i] [kernel]
otherwise you want should take a look at the mkrboot package
yours martin
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