Re: [Redhat] vmlinuz

[Chris Hewitt <g0pae manordat demon co uk>]

Homer Parker wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:31:33 +0000
> Chris Hewitt <g0pae manordat demon co uk> wrote:
>
> > I've found even vmlinuz is getting too big. On this computer (AMD K6-2, 
> > IDE disc drives but a SCSI card with CD reader and CD writer) a 
> > mkbootdisk under RH9 is OK but under Fedora Core 1 it is too big. The 
> > image in /tmp is bigger than a floppy.
>
> 	I've never tried it in this situation, but you can format a floppy to
> 1.68 pretty easily.. Larger sizes are not as reliable...
>
> fdformat /dev/fd0u1680
>
> 	Again, not sure if it will work for that, I never make a boot floppy, I
> keep the boot CD and use it...
I've tried this and unfortunately I don't think it does. If I format the 
floppy as you say then it succeeds but I can't mount it (not too 
surprisingly). If I then do a
mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd-u1680 `uname -r`
I still get the "not enough space on device" error. If I now try to 
mount it then that works and shows me the files. df says it has 1430 1k 
blocks so it appears that mkbootdisk ignores formatting and writes raw.

I'll have to stick to CD 1 as a rescue disc. Thanks for trying.

Regards

Chris