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Re: Disaster disks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sheldon E. Newhouse)
Thu Nov 21 16:01:36 1996
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 15:54:30 -0500 (EST)
From: "Sheldon E. Newhouse" <sen1@math.msu.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <199611211935.TAA00490@lucy.atd.ucar.edu>
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On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Does Red Hat provide a standard way of making disaster disks? I've been
> going through some of the packages out there, and I'm just amazed at how
> hard it is to do something that should be so simple -- and so routine.
> Please tell me I'm missing something somewhere?
>
Unpack the kernel source, put a DOS formatted floppy disk in drive A:, and
build a working kernel with the command
make zdisk
or
make bzdisk (if the kernel is too big).
This will make a bootable floppy disk. Make 2 or 3.
-sen
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