On 20 Oct 2002, Craig White wrote:

> On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 20:45, Bob Holtzman wrote:
> > On 19 Oct 2002, Craig White wrote:
> > 
> > > cli
> > > mkbootdisk
> > > man mkbootdisk
> > > 
> > > also, look at man mkfs
> > > 
> > Yup, that did it. I still wonder why the Gnome Gui tool doesn't work.
> > 
> ----
> offhand guess...permissions - we forget about these things when we open
> a terminal and su to root.
> 

On my box it looks like it's world executable:

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         4660 Mar 26  2002 /sbin/mkbootdisk

Yours in confusion,
-- 
Bob Holtzman
"If you think you're getting free lunch,
 ......check the price of the beer!"