making a setup disk

KnightAbel · 10-04-2002, 10:32 PM

I'm trying to make a setup floppy since I can't boot from my cdrom, but whenever I try to copy boot.img from the images folder of my Red Hat 7.2 disk, it says there is not enough space on my disk (there actually is, I don't know what's wrong). I have already completely reformatted the floppy, so it's not that.

any suggestions?

DavidPhillips · 10-04-2002, 11:31 PM

you need to use rawrite to put the image on the disk using windows, in linux we use dd

DavidPhillips · 10-04-2002, 11:33 PM

the .img file is a filesystem image, you cannot create a boot disk by copying it to a floppy.

ToeShot · 10-04-2002, 11:37 PM

try dd fi=/path/boot.img fo=/dev/fd0

DavidPhillips · 10-05-2002, 12:19 AM

dd if=/path/boot.img of=/dev/fd0

KnightAbel · 10-05-2002, 02:51 AM

thanks, I figured it out. For some reason my book says to place the image directly on the disk.