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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: [kde] boot disk
From:       larry <>
Date:       2004-02-26 1:51:19
Message-ID: 200402251951.19221.larry 
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On Tuesday 24 February 2004 02:15, David Wallis wrote:
> Hi
> I am running Mandrake 9.2 and KDE 3.0 and am having trouble making a
> boot disk
> In a shell, as su,  I format a floppy  with gfloppy to Linux Native (ext2)
> I issued the command
> mkbootdisk  2.4.22-10mdk
> and I get the reply ... cp: writing `/tmp/mkbootdisk/initrd.img': No
> space left on device
> When I look at the floppy it has three entries ... initrd.img
> ldlinux.sys  vmlinuz
> When I try to boot with the disk it ends up
> Could not find kernel image :Linux boot
> Any help, greatly appreciated
> David Wallis
>
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David,
The floppy simply isn't big enough, that is, unless you recompile to trim the
kernel considerably.
I found the easiest way (for me) is to go to the Mandrake site and look for 
the 'ERRATA' section pertaining to 9.2.

A method is explained for makeing  a boot cdrom. It works nicely.
Larry

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