[plug] Mandrake 10.1 boot up disk

[Michael]

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Mark Saxon wrote:

> Milan Pospisil wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:35:45 +0800, Michael Collard
>> <quadfour at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 12:04 +0800, Milan Pospisil wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Folks'
>>>>              Is there way how to make a boot up disk using the GUI in
>>>> mandrake10.1? I have been searching through KDE for quite some time
>>>> and kinda can not find it. Could someone point me in the right
>>>> direction?
>>>> 
>>> drakfloppy is what you're after :)
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> Michael Collard
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> Where is it actually hiding?  Is it in Control centre-> Boot->
>> Drakfloppy?  If yes, then I have a problem, because all I can see
>> there is a bootloader configuration. Or am I on the wrong track
>> completely?
>> 
>> 
>
> Already looked into this.  The 2.6 kernel + initrd image that comes with 10.1 
> will not
> fit on a standard floppy.
>
> So there you have it.

Thats a good point, didn't think of that. There is a .img file on CD1 that 
you can dd to /dev/fd0 which will give you a working boot disk (maybe 
different kernel version though).

The actually drakfloppy thing isn't in the MCC for some reason.

Regards
Michael Collard