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>Make a boot diskette (optional)</TITLE
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>Hard Disk Upgrade Mini How-To</TH
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NAME="BOOTDISK"
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>10. Make a boot diskette (optional)</A
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><P
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>If you wish, you can make a boot diskette, in case you run into
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problems when trying to boot the new disk.</P
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><P
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>Insert an empty diskette, format it, create a file system on it and
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mount it:
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<TABLE
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><PRE
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CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
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>fdformat /dev/fd0H1440
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mkfs.ext2 /dev/fd0
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mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt</PRE
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>Debian only. </B
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>With Debian 2.x, use <TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>/dev/fd0u1440</TT
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> instead of
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<TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>/dev/fd0H1440</TT
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>. With Debian 1.x, use
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<TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>/dev/fd0h1440</TT
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>, with a lower case
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<I
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>h</I
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>.</P
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>Debian only. </B
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>With Debian 2.x, use <B
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CLASS="COMMAND"
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>superformat</B
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> instead of
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<B
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CLASS="COMMAND"
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>fdformat</B
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>.
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You can ignore the error
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<TT
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CLASS="COMPUTEROUTPUT"
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>mformat: command not found</TT
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>.
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With Debian 1.x, if you don't have the command
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<B
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CLASS="COMMAND"
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>fdformat</B
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>, you can omit it if the floppy
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is already formatted. In this case, you should check the diskette for
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bad blocks by adding <TT
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CLASS="OPTION"
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>-c</TT
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> after the
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<B
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CLASS="COMMAND"
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>mkfs.ext2</B
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> command.</P
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CLASS="FORMALPARA"
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><B
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>Slackware only. </B
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>Use <TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>/dev/fd0u1440</TT
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> instead of
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<TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>/dev/fd0H1440</TT
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>. With older versions, try
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<TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>/dev/fd0h1440</TT
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>, with a lower case
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<I
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CLASS="WORDASWORD"
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>h</I
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>.</P
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><DIV
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CLASS="FORMALPARA"
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><P
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><B
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>SuSE only. </B
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>Use <TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>/dev/fd0u1440</TT
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> instead of
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<TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>/dev/fd0H1440</TT
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>.</P
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>Copy all files in <TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>/boot</TT
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> to the
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diskette:
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><PRE
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CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
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>cp -dp /boot/* /mnt</PRE
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>
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</P
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><B
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>Red Hat only. </B
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>If the <TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>/boot</TT
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> directory
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contains both <TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>vmlinux</TT
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> and
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<TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>vmlinuz</TT
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> files (note the difference in the last
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letter), you only need to copy the <TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>vmlinuz</TT
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> files to
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the boot diskette. They are the same as the vmlinux
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files, except that they're compressed to save space.</P
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CLASS="FORMALPARA"
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>Slackware only. </B
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>Copy the file <TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>/vmlinuz</TT
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> to the boot diskette;
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use the command <B
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CLASS="COMMAND"
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>cp /vmlinuz /mnt</B
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>.</P
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><P
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>Create a new file <TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>/mnt/lilo.conf</TT
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> as follows:
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>boot=/dev/fd0 # Install LILO on floppy disk.
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map=/mnt/map # Location of "map file".
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install=/mnt/boot.b # File to copy to floppy's
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# boot sector.
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prompt # Have LILO show "LILO boot:"
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# prompt.
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timeout=50 # Boot default system after 5
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# seconds. (Value is in tenths of
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# seconds.)
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image=/mnt/vmlinuz # Location of Linux kernel on
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# floppy. The actual name may
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# include a version number, for
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# example "vmlinuz-2.0.35".
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label=linux # Label for Linux system.
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root=/dev/hda1 # Location of root partition on
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# new hard disk. Modify this as
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# appropriate for your system.
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# Note that you must use the name
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# of the future location, once the
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# old disk has been removed.
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read-only # Mount partition read-only at
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# first, to run fsck.</PRE
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>Install <SPAN
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CLASS="ACRONYM"
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>LILO</SPAN
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> on the boot diskette:
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>/sbin/lilo -C /mnt/lilo.conf</PRE
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</P
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><P
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>The <TT
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CLASS="OPTION"
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>-C</TT
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> option tells <SPAN
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CLASS="ACRONYM"
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>LILO</SPAN
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> what
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configuration file to use.</P
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>Unmount the diskette:
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>umount /mnt</PRE
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