Preparing linux boot floppy.
Krishnaprasad
k.krishna at hcl.in
Sat Jul 29 08:17:58 UTC 2006
how can u write 6.2M to a floppy drive!!!!!!!!.
In dd operation itself it has shown that no space left on device!!!
unix syzadmin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I prepared the boot floppy for RHEL ES4 using the following
> procedure. But
> getting "boot failed" error while booting from it.
>
> [root at redhat ~]# more /etc/redhat-release
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 3)
>
> [root at redhat ~]# cd /media/cdrom
> [root at redhat cdrom]# cd images
> [root at redhat images]# ls -l
> total 11360
> -rw-r--r-- 10 root root 5337088 Mar 4 01:55 boot.iso
> -rw-r--r-- 10 root root 6291456 Mar 4 01:55 diskboot.img
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Mar 4 02:45 pxeboot
> -rw-r--r-- 10 root root 668 Mar 4 01:55 README
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 881 Mar 4 04:41 TRANS.TBL
>
> [root at redhat images]# dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/fd0
> dd: writing to `/dev/fd0': No space left on device
> 2881+0 records in
> 2880+0 records out
> [root at redhat images]#
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> -GnanaShekar-
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Rgds
KRISHNAPRASAD.K
R&D Engineer
HCL INFOSYSTEMS LTD
PONDICHERRY
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