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dd and boot.img
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Kannengieser)
Sat Oct 24 14:21:37 1998
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 14:20:09 -0400
From: Jim Kannengieser <jimk@echonyc.com>
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Hi, folks. Sorry to bother you all with this, but I am having a bit of a
problem. My Red Hat 5.1 boot disk no longer works. When I try to boot my
system with it to perform an installation, it says "boot failed." My Red
Hat 5.0 disk works well, but I'd rather install 5.1. On another system,
I tried using dd to make a boot disk from the boot.img file on the 5.1
cd-rom, but that doesn't seem to be working correctly. Here's what I've
been doing. If someone could, please tell me what I've been doing
incorrectly.
1. Insert a floppy into floppy drive and type:
mkfs.ext2 /dev/fd0
2. Mount the floppy
3. Mount the Red Hat 5.1 cd, cd to the images directory and type:
dd if=boot.img of=/mnt/floppy/boot.img
At this point, the following message appears:
dd: /mnt/floppy/boot.img: No space left on device
2741+0 records in
2740+0 records out
The boot disk doesn't work at all, and I'm not sure what is wrong with
my approach. Does anyone know how to make a boot disk from the boot.img
file correctly?
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
Jim
jimk@echonyc.com
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