[WBEL-users] Problems making a Boot floppy using mkbootdisk

[Jon Lewis]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Randy Allen wrote:

> I tried to make a boot floppy using /sbin/mkbootdisk ... I receive
> errors saying that there was not enough room on the floppy. I wiped the
> floppy clean and retried and got the same error. I thought that was the
> commands job to make sure it could fit on the floppy?  Do you have any
> ideas what is going on?

Too big a kernel, initrd, too many modules, and your "bootdisk" will not
fit on a 3.5" floppy.  If it's close, you could try one of the alternative
higher capacity 3.5" formats.

See the folloring URL for step by step:
https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/dulug/2002-January/003957.html

----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Jon Lewis                   |  I route
 Senior Network Engineer     |  therefore you are
 Atlantic Net                |
_________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________