From: frank@cs.yorku.ca (Frank Pikelner) Subject: Re: how to put bootimage on hd? (faq?) Date: 21 Aug 1992 13:30:07 GMT
In article <1992Aug20.194255.4847@unislc.uucp>, erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) writes:
|> Olaf Schreck (olafabbe@w251zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de) wrote:
|>
|> : how do i put the BOOTimage onto my hd? i did this once, worked fine, but
|> : can't remember where i read about this. must have been something with dd.
|> : i tried "dd if=/dev/floppy0 /vmlinux" but this gave me a 1.4 MB file
|> : (the whole floppy disk instead of ~ 230k bootimage file).
|>
Is the command not something like:
dd if=/dev/floppy0 of=/vmlinux count=230 (or is it 2x230=460?)
I'll be doing this in the next couple of days so maybe someone can correct/verify
the above.
|> If you have the source, recompile, then cp /usr/src/linux/Image.
|>
|> In the Makefile, there is a dd command associated with the target "make disk" -
|> reverse the if= and of= and it should work, also.
|> --
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