Re: Making a boot floppy

2002-05-07 Thread dave mallery
On Mon, 6 May 2002, David Smead wrote: > > I'm a newbie to Debian, and presently doing more sys admin than I prefer, > but I've been `computing' since the early 1960s. Documentation has > improved little since then, but now we have more powerful seach machines. hi dave i first programed on an

Re: Making a boot floppy

2002-05-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 10:13:29PM -0500, Dan Griswold wrote: > For apt-cache, I see no obvious refining of the search for someone who > doesn't already know the name of the package that contains mkboot, > viz., debianutils. You may find the search facility on packages.debian.org useful. Cheers,

Re: Making a boot floppy

2002-05-07 Thread David Smead
Dan, I don't want this subject to become just more noise, but your idea of using grep with bin is a good one, and worth remembering. I'm a newbie to Debian, and presently doing more sys admin than I prefer, but I've been `computing' since the early 1960s. Documentation has improved little since

Re: Making a boot floppy

2002-05-06 Thread Dan Griswold
Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 3 May 2002, David Smead wrote: > > > Sorry for being so unskilled - > > > > I just installed a new kernel and would like to make a boot floppy. I've > > wasted an hour on google and debian looking for how that is done. I.e. > > shove a floppy

Re: Making a boot floppy

2002-05-06 Thread Walter Tautz
On Fri, 3 May 2002, David Smead wrote: > Sorry for being so unskilled - > > I just installed a new kernel and would like to make a boot floppy. I've > wasted an hour on google and debian looking for how that is done. I.e. > shove a floppy into the drive and type ENTER. > whenever one r

Re: Making a boot floppy

2002-05-04 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include David Smead wrote on Fri May 03, 2002 um 07:58:04PM: > Thanks to everyone who new the mkboot command. > > Fortunately the machine boots of the hard drive, but not the floppy I > made. I get a kernel panic. Which kernel? For initrd-based, you need an initrd entry in lilo.conf. > image

Re: Making a boot floppy

2002-05-03 Thread craigw
On Fri May 03, 2002 at 10:29:58PM -0500, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > On Fri, 3 May 2002 20:24:11 -0700 (PDT) > "David Smead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My signature takes up 5 lines. > > I was referencing the signature of Dave Mallery. > > > > On Fri, 3 May 2002 20:36:57 -0600 (MDT) > > > "da

Re: Making a boot floppy

2002-05-03 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Fri, 3 May 2002 20:24:11 -0700 (PDT) "David Smead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My signature takes up 5 lines. I was referencing the signature of Dave Mallery. > > On Fri, 3 May 2002 20:36:57 -0600 (MDT) > > "dave mallery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ^^^

Re: Making a boot floppy

2002-05-03 Thread David Smead
My signature takes up 5 lines. Should I not replay with the message included? -- Sincerely, David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. On Fri, 3 May 2002, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Fri, 3 May 2002 20:36:57 -0600 (MDT) > "dave mallery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 3 May 2002, David

Re: Making a boot floppy

2002-05-03 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Fri, 3 May 2002 20:36:57 -0600 (MDT) "dave mallery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 3 May 2002, David Smead wrote: > > mkboot > (snip 12 line signature) Are 12 line signatures really needed when posting to a mailing list? Especially for 1 line posts? -- Jamin W. Collins -- To UNSU

Re: Making a boot floppy

2002-05-03 Thread David Smead
Thanks to everyone who new the mkboot command. Fortunately the machine boots of the hard drive, but not the floppy I made. I get a kernel panic. First it warns about needing a boot=option, then kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:02 I mounted the boot floppy and here's what lilo.co

Re: Making a boot floppy

2002-05-03 Thread dave mallery
On Fri, 3 May 2002, David Smead wrote: > Sorry for being so unskilled - > > I just installed a new kernel and would like to make a boot floppy. I've > wasted an hour on google and debian looking for how that is done. I.e. > shove a floppy into the drive and type ENTER. > > mkboot -- Da

Re: Making a boot floppy

2002-05-03 Thread Tom Massey
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 07:05:01PM -0700, David Smead wrote: > I just installed a new kernel and would like to make a boot floppy. I've > wasted an hour on google and debian looking for how that is done. I.e. > shove a floppy into the drive and type ENTER. Type 'mkboot' ENTER. -- To UNSU

Re: Making a boot floppy

2002-05-03 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
David Smead wrote: > Sorry for being so unskilled - > > I just installed a new kernel and would like to make a boot floppy. I've > wasted an hour on google and debian looking for how that is done. I.e. > shove a floppy into the drive and type ENTER. > mkboot -- David Raeker-Jordan mailt

Making a boot floppy

2002-05-03 Thread David Smead
Sorry for being so unskilled - I just installed a new kernel and would like to make a boot floppy. I've wasted an hour on google and debian looking for how that is done. I.e. shove a floppy into the drive and type ENTER. -- Sincerely, David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. -- To UNSUB