[CentOS] creating a boot floppy

Sat Jul 8 22:09:34 UTC 2006
Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com>

On 7/8/06, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote:
> I am using the following command below to create a boot floppy file.
> Am I not doing the correct thing?
>
> mkbootdisk --device bootfloppy.img 2.6.9-34.0.1.EL
> cp: writing `/tmp/mkbootdisk.Jb5537/vmlinuz': No space left on device
> cp: writing `/tmp/mkbootdisk.Jb5537/initrd.img': No space left on device
> cat: write error: No space left on device
> cat: write error: No space left on device
>

No modern kernel is small enough to fit on a floppy any more. If you
really need a boot floppy (as opposed to CDROM) you can put grub on a
floppy.

What, exactly, are your needs?

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Collins Richey
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