Preparing linux boot floppy.

[Krishnaprasad]

how can u write 6.2M to a floppy drive!!!!!!!!.

In dd operation itself it has shown that no space left on device!!!

unix syzadmin wrote:


> Hi,
>
> I prepared the boot floppy for RHEL ES4 using the following 
> procedure.  But
> getting "boot failed" error while booting from it.
>
> [root at redhat ~]# more /etc/redhat-release
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 3)
>
> [root at redhat ~]# cd /media/cdrom
> [root at redhat cdrom]# cd images
> [root at redhat images]# ls -l
> total 11360
> -rw-r--r--  10 root root 5337088 Mar  4 01:55 boot.iso
> -rw-r--r--  10 root root 6291456 Mar  4 01:55 diskboot.img
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root    2048 Mar  4 02:45 pxeboot
> -rw-r--r--  10 root root     668 Mar  4 01:55 README
> -r--r--r--   1 root root     881 Mar  4 04:41 TRANS.TBL
>
> [root at redhat images]# dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/fd0
> dd: writing to `/dev/fd0': No space left on device
> 2881+0 records in
> 2880+0 records out
> [root at redhat images]#
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> -GnanaShekar-



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KRISHNAPRASAD.K
R&D Engineer
HCL INFOSYSTEMS LTD
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