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10-04-2002, 09:32 PM
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Registered: Sep 2002
Location: Kaysville, UT USA
Distribution: Red Hat Linux, Slackware
Posts: 242
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making a setup disk
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?
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10-04-2002, 10:31 PM
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Registered: Jun 2001
Location: South Alabama
Distribution: Fedora / RedHat / SuSE
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you need to use rawrite to put the image on the disk using windows, in linux we use dd
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10-04-2002, 10:33 PM
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Registered: Jun 2001
Location: South Alabama
Distribution: Fedora / RedHat / SuSE
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the .img file is a filesystem image, you cannot create a boot disk by copying it to a floppy.
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10-04-2002, 10:37 PM
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Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Near Chicago
Distribution: FC5, Solaris 10, WinXP
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try dd fi=/path/boot.img fo=/dev/fd0
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10-04-2002, 11:19 PM
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Registered: Jun 2001
Location: South Alabama
Distribution: Fedora / RedHat / SuSE
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dd if=/path/boot.img of=/dev/fd0
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10-05-2002, 01:51 AM
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Member
Registered: Sep 2002
Location: Kaysville, UT USA
Distribution: Red Hat Linux, Slackware
Posts: 242
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thanks, I figured it out. For some reason my book says to place the image directly on the disk.
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