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Title: Bootdisks

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Bootdisks

You will find new bootdisks with newer kernels as well as the suitable source codes for them in

Build the bootdisk with rawrite (in CD1/dosutils); copy file a: does not work!. You use the bootdisk thus built together with the root disk and the install disk, that you can build from the CD with setup.exe. After the installation, you can boot the system with the installation bootdisk. Declare for this the LILO parameter root= at the LILO prompt (see manual). If you do not want to build your own kernel, you can copy yourself kernel from the bootdisk. Mount for it the disk:

mount -tminix /dev/fd0 /mnt 
and copy the kernel image from the disk into /vmlinuz . Set now the root device and the read-only-flag:
   
rdev /vmlinuz /dev/sd??
rdev -R /vmlinuz 1
Make sure, that the file /etc/lilo.conf matches your system especifications and then call lilo. Afterwards you should be able to boot your system from hard disk. If you have problems, be referred to the LILO chapter in the manual.

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Keywords: BOOT, DISK

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