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

[Phil Schaffner]

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 01:51 -0500, Jon Lewis wrote:
> 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

Can't seem to get a response from the above link today, so if this is
covered, ignore...

Bit late answering - still playing post-holiday catchup.  You can also
make a bootable CD:

# mkbootdisk --device boot`uname -r`.iso --iso `uname -r`
# ll boot2.4.21-27.0.1.EL.iso
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1812480 Jan  6 09:39 boot2.4.21-27.0.1.EL.iso

Burn to a CD-R or CD-RW and away you go.

Phil