From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) Subject: Re: EXT2FS FAQ (Was Re: A ton of questions) Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1993 07:26:01 GMT
marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) writes:
> okay...how do you create a root file system on a floppy? my
>kernel is on a floppy...but I take it that that doesn't count, eh?
Never having done it, I'd guess it would be done like this:
mkfs /dev/fd0H1440 1440
This creates an empty filesystem. You can then put all the things you
need on it in order to be able to make it usable as a root filesystem
and to do fsck on your hard disk partitions.
An easier way would be to use HLu's bootable rootdisk, or even the A1
and A2 disks of SLS.