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On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 10:20:44 -0500
"Justin Birtwell"
Hi all,
I'm trying to create a rescue disk so that I can book to Suse 9.0. I use the rawwritewin.exe file provided by Suse, in conjunction with the 'rescuefloppy' file. But when I try to boot off the floppy my system doesn't recognize the disk and continually restarts. First, if you can boot the CD-ROM or DVD, forget the rescue floppy and boot the CD-ROM. Otherwise, use YaST to create the boot floppy.
Or from the command line, use the dd command.
First, make sure you have a formatted floppy. The commands (as root):
fdformat /dev/fd0h1440 # formats the floppy
mount /media/cdrom # mount the cdrom (S/B in your /etc/fstab file
cd /media/cdrom/boot # cd to the location of the images
dd if=rescuefloppy of=/dev/fd0
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Jerry Feldman