mkbootdisk

[ross]

Hi all,
I, being a newby, trying Linux accidently ruined my bootdisk
by commencing a format while the floppy was in the drive.
I did a repair re-install and produced another floppy to boot
Linux. Once the system was running I tried using 'mkbootdisk'
to make a duplicate but get the response 'command not found'
Version details were inputted with the command as required.
Why won't Red Hat 9 find the command?

Any help appreciated

Ross

[J.O. Aho]

Maybe it's not a installed or not part of RH9.
There is a quite good description how to make a bootfloppy if you read the
README file that is included with the kernel-source package, location on
harddrive /usr/src/linux-2.4/README

//Aho

[Lenard]

$ locate mkbootdisk
/usr/share/man/man8/mkbootdisk.8.gz
/sbin/mkbootdisk

So from the console or xterm session as root or equivalent;

/sbin/mkbootdisk <kernel_version_number>

Sounds like maybe that you were attempting to make your copy as a regular
user or you used 'su' instead of 'su -' (big difference) for the
mkbootdisk command (See 'man su' for the details). But since you already
have the boot disk and you want to make a copy of it, use dd (see 'man dd'
for the details) [no root needed]; dd if=dev/fd0 of=bootdisk.img bs=1440k

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[ro...@nospam.com]

Thanks Lenard,
it was the su- that did the trick.
Tried yesterday to reply via Mozilla but it wouldn't send.
Must check configuration.
Ross