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Re: Disaster disks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sheldon E. Newhouse)
Thu Nov 21 16:11:38 1996
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 16:10:24 -0500 (EST)
From: "Sheldon E. Newhouse" <sen1@math.msu.edu>
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Sorry, the post below *assumed* you know how to build a kernel. Of
course, you have to do
make mrproper; make dep; make clean; make zdisk
Check the file /usr/src/linux/README for more details.
-sen
> 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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