Re: [Sheflug] boot disk

["Craig Andrews" <nospam [at] fishbot.free-online.co.uk>]

As far I as can remember (when I downloaded it, anyhow), tomsrtbt's
install.sh script automatically creates the required /dev node if it ain't
there. I think it's called:

/dev/fd0u1722

Remember, if using this, it's best to do this:

fdformat /dev/fd0u1722
mke2fs (or whatever) /dev/fd0u1722
mount /dev/fd0u1722 /floppy

I don't know if its still a problem, but my 2.0.35 kernel had some trouble
acknowledging the 1722k filesystem when using the standard 1440k /dev/fd0

Craig





-----Original Message-----
From: Al Hudson <eah106 [at] york.ac.uk>
To: Sheflug <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
Date: 03 May 2000 12:20
Subject: Re: [Sheflug] boot disk


>
>On Wed, 3 May 2000, José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:
>
>> > Does anyone know were I can download a linux boot disk/image to enable
me to
>> > boot to a shell and mount drives and fix stuff etc. Cheers KevinB
>>
>> Most distros come with a rescue image in the CD somewhere.
>
>Yep, the SuSE ones always work well for me.
>
>> I have not used tomsXXXX (can't remember what the XXX stands
>> for),
>
>tomsrtbt - Tom's Root Boot, I believe.
>
>When messing with these things, you find you need some special /dev/
>nodes, to gain 1.8Mb access to the floppy drive. It's not especially easy,
>but that said, it's *always* worth having boot disks lying about.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Alex.
>
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