Making a Bootable Rescue Disk

Martin McCormick martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu
Mon Feb 7 18:38:22 UTC 2005


	Thank you.  That helps a lot.  My understanding is that most
of the image is wasted and what the CDROM is doing is getting just
enough information to know that the CD is bootable and that the kernel
should run next.

Tim Chase writes:
>You likely need to use the "dd" command.  If you have a boot
>floppy you want to use, you can put it in the drive and do
>
>dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/images/boot.img bs=1440k count=1




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