Re: how to make boot floppy/rescue disk

["Hanigan Family" <hanfam sprynet com>]

Thanks,
I found the instructions on the boot floppy in a book I had and 
made it.It gives that message when I tried it. But it didn't say
how to make the rescue floppy.
        Linda
-----Original Message-----
From: Harry Putnam <reader newsguy com>
To: redhat-list redhat com <redhat-list redhat com>
Date: Thursday, September 30, 1999 9:41 PM
Subject: Re: how to make boot floppy/rescue disk


>"Hanigan Family" <hanfam sprynet com> writes:
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: SBTM <sallawa entropy uark edu>
>> To: redhat-list redhat com <redhat-list redhat com>
>> Date: Thursday, September 30, 1999 8:27 AM
>> .
>> >
>> >PS: forgot to mention, my boot floppy don't work! 
>> >.
>> Hi
>> Did you make it as part of rh 6 install, because mine
>> was also bad and I figured it was a bad floppy.
>> Incidently What should you add to a boot floppy
>> to make it a good rescue disk .
>>                        Linda
>
>I've made several boot floppies with 6.0 ... all worked.
>
>The recue technique requires two floppies  1) boot  1)rescue
>
>You make the rescue floppy from the "*/images/rescue.img" on the CD or
>from a Redhat mirror.  There is a text on CD that explains how it is
>done called "rescue.txt"  I forgot exactly where it is but close to
>top level of the CD.  Basically:
>
>dd if=rescue.img of=/dev/fd0  (with floppy drive unmounted)
>
>After making the rescue floppy:
>
>Boot with boot floppy
>At the boot prompt type "rescue" then hit enter.
>You will be prompted when to insert the rescue disk.
>
>
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