how to make a linux bootdisk (slackware)?
 

i dont have the slackware cd, can i make one anyway?
and i don´t have lilo installed on my computer.

what boot loader are you using? how are you booting linux at the moment?

here is how to create a bootdisk:

insert a new floppy disk and overwrite it with the following commands:

dd if=/boot/vmlinuz.something of=/dev/df0
rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda5 <--- this needs to be your root partition

then just boot the floppy

Or even easier, just type makebootdisk at the console.

Enjoy!
--- Cerbere

okey, i have solved the problem, i downloaded files to make a bootdisk from slackware ftpsite (ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar...ent/bootdisks/)

at the command promt in windows (sorry =P) cd in to the bootdisk directory and typed:
rawrite bare.i a:

and then i had my bootdisk

later when i boot up the computer with the bootdisk I typed (when "boot:" came up) boot: mount root=/dev/hda3
(if you have linux on hda3, else change)

then i could login to my linux again =)

Hi I have had problems with bootdisk too I try making the same one as you I downloaded the bare.i image and used rawrite to make the bootdisk everything went fine till I tried to boot off it and it said boot failed. and Im using the bare.i kernel

do you have raid or scsi?, then you should try another image, not bare.i

no I dont have raid or scsi, I used bare.i kernels to install slackware but I couldn't install a boot loader so I ahve no way of booting it up, casue my boot disk wont work it fails got any suggestions

change diskett, and try again, it should boot =)
try rawrite12.exe or rawrite13.exe

hope it helps

its alright I got it to boot off the cd, now im trying to get the ethernet drivers to install