Re: about 1722K floppy disk problem?

From: Michele Andreoli ([email protected])
Date: Mon Jan 08 2001 - 13:54:46 CET


Barry Wu wrote:

> Hi, all,
>
> I am new to this maillist. I want to build a system
> on floppy. Because the fault 1.44MB is too small,
> I want 1.722MB or more. I do the following things,
> #fdformat /dev/fd0H1722
> #cat /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage /dev/fd0

> #rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/fd0

Substitute *all* fd0 with fd0H1722

>
> #rdev -r /dev/fd0 49552

What means this statement?

You need to inform the kernel about what root to mount. For example:

        # rdev /dev/fd0H1722 /dev/hda6

will mount / from the /dev/hda6

Michele

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