Boot disk
 

How do I make a boot disk on a cd instead of a floppy?

Well.. what are you trying to do? You can make it by putting some code on the boot sector of the cd-rom, but it's easier to get a booteable iso (search for live cd) from the net.
You can use Slackware's CD 1&2 as boot disk also..

Your trying to make a backup disk on cd and not floppy right?
http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/~purschke/RescueCD/

KC

hmmm.
I was having LILO install errors,so I wanted to boot off a cd(laptop has no floppy drive).
but I discovered(when my brain kicked in that I could use the install cd).
But that wasn't the problem.
I partitioned my drive to a 9gb Linux ext2 and a 28 gb winxp ntfs but it won't mount my linux drive.(I did use fdisk)
It says: invalid fs or bad super... or too many fses mounted.

um..help?:confused:

You've to make a ext2 filesystem after creating the partition with: mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdXX
I would however, recommend ext3 or reiserfs which are better than ext2. Just use mkfs.reiserfs or mkfs.ext3.
Change /dev/hdXX to match your hard-drive/partition

dammit that just gives me: unknown command mkfs.reiserfs

Since you are having trouble installing LILO, I assume that you are dual booting, and are trying to install LILO to the MBR with no luck. Try installing LILO on the superblock of your linux partition, and have the windows bootloader give you the option to either boot windows or linux. It isn't difficult to do, and it works rather well, if LILO cannot be installed on the MBR. See this thread on how to do it..

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=309036

You have to be in root to run mkfs.

KC

Not the problem but thanks for the advice.
Lilo won't write to the superblock.
It says : invalid fs or bad superblock or too many fses mounted.
In the installation diagnostic alt-F4 It says: hdd is not a valid block device.

Why is it trying to write to hdd?
My linux partition is hda2.

eh...I was in root.
On the install cd.
I can't get linux to boot.

Check to see if you have any read only media that linux sees, such a a compact flash reader or sdcard reader through a printer, or something like that. There is a glitch with lilo that I stumbled upon. I once tried to get LILO to install on the superblock, and got an error one time, even though I've done the install so many times, then I found out that the trouble was from the compact flash reader on my printer. It wasn't mounted, but because the card was in the slot, and linux saw it as an unmounted medium, it tried to write LILO to the compact flash instead of the superblock, for some stupid reason. As soon as I removed the card, I was able to reinstall LILO to the superblock. It may be a card, or some other peripheral that it is causing it. Try removing any uneccesary peripherals, such as joysticks, compact flash/SDCard readers, and maybe your printer, and see if that works..

Thanks but I don't have any peripherals connected atm.

Doh, well I guess I'm all out of suggestions then.. :(

Ultran00b, use /sbin/liloconfig to configure LILO.
What I don't still understand is if you've installed Linux or not. If you had, where, and what are you trying to do again? :)

Ok, let me try to clarify.
I HAVE installed linux on /dev/hda2
I CANNOT get it to boot due to the partition issues stated above.
I am TRYING to find some way to make it boot but it won't even boot if I use the boot: prompt on the install cd.