RE: Custom Bootdisk

[Kara Pritchard <kara@luci.org>]

5.2? Eeek! Make sure you get a 6.2 disk at the next meeting!

In the mean time, I know current versions of redhat use mkbootdisk. See if
5.2 has such a utility. If not, download the mkbootdisk rpm.

On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Joe Bonansinga wrote:

> I am running redhat 5.2
> 
> Joe
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Blunier [mailto:blunier@ocslink.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 9:07 PM
> To: luci-discuss@luci.org
> Subject: Re: Custom Bootdisk
> 
> 
> Previously Joe Bonansinga (bonansinga@admworld.com):
> 
> > I understand that a bootdisk can be made at the time of install. How can I
> > make a custom bootdisk( and I guess root disk) for my system that has
> vastly
> > different kernel parameters than when it was first installed. This is
> going
> > to be for emergency purposes. Should I just read the Bootdisk how-to?
> 
> Which distribution are you running?  On Debian you can use mkboot, or
> better yet, after you compile your optimized kernel and install that
> package, it will make one for you.
> 
> Mark
> 
> > 
> > Joe Bonansinga
> > Bioinformatics Programmer
> > ADM Research/JRRRC
> > email: bonansinga@admworld.com
> > Phone: 217/424-4833
> > Fax: 217/424-4230
> > 
> > 
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