Boot images

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Thu Oct 2 15:39:56 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 03:29, Ossama Khayaat wrote:
> Trying to create boot disks, the only image that works is bootdisk.img, while if I want to use any of the other images (drvblock.img, drvnet.img, pcmciadd.img) they don't work at all.
> What I mean is, after I use rawritewin.exe to create the disk, and it says it's created successfully, I can't access the floppy from windows. Also, I can't boot from any of these images.
> I tried downloading the drvnet.img from the internet, but still it doesn't work.

Only bootdisk.img is meant to be bootable.  And all of the driver disks
are ext2 formatted, and so won't be able to be accessed from Windows.

Cheers,

Jeremy







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