Messages in this thread |  | | From | Shinanyaku <> | Subject | Re: 1.99.8: documentation for making boot floppy | Date | Thu, 30 May 1996 09:44:22 -0400 (EDT) |
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Nelson Minar was heard saying .... > > The README in /usr/src/linux for 1.99.8 suggests this command to make > a bootable floppy with a Linux kernel: > > cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage /dev/fd0 > > that hasn't worked for me since sometime around 1.3.60. The command > from the arch/i386/boot Makefile does work, I recommend putting it in > the README instead (or figure out why the plain cp doesn't work) > > dd bs=8192 if=/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage of=/dev/fd0 > >
That's odd. Because just yesterday (when I was testing 1.99.8), I did a
cat ~/linux/zImage > /dev/fd0 rdev -R /dev/fd0 1
with no problem. Isn't that functionally identical to using cp ?
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