On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 16:35, Bob Holtzman wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Darrell Shandrow wrote:
> 
> > Hi Bob,
> > 
> > Well, actually, you should also be able to make your own boot disk from a
> > DOS/Windows system.  Just get the appropriate boot image from RedHat or
> > another credible source, download and install the RawWrite program, then
> > write a boot disk to a floppy as needed.
> 
> Problem solved. The boot disk I created when I installed RH7.3 turned out 
> to be blank! Not knowing this led to a number of false assumptions and
> conclusions on my part. I tried a disk from my old RH7.1 install and it 
> worked like a charm. 
> 
> The "create boot disk" in the system programs menu of RH7.3 still yields a 
> blank disk. I've tried formatting the disk in both a vfat and an ext2 but
> no luck. Has anyone done this successfully?
> 
> Thanks for the reply. I'll tell the virgin she can go home now.
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Send her over here...no volcanoes to worry about.

man mkbootdisk

probably 'mkbootdisk /dev/fd0' is all you need to know

Craig