bootable floppy

[o_corn]

I installed knoppix on the HD, without making bootable floppy when the installation was running.
How can I make bootable floppy now, when the knoppix is on the HD?

[Robert Michel]

see http://www.knoppix.net/docs/

or when you have the Knoppix-CD mountet to /cdrom
and a fd without importand data use shell:
(all data on fd will be overwritten)

dd if=/cdrom/KNOPPIX/boot.img of=/dev/fd0

rob

[Robert Michel]

PS: I don't know if this fd boots only CD-Roms or also your
hd-installation. I don't use fd anymore........

[o_corn]

PS: I don't know if this fd boots only CD-Roms or also your
hd-installation. I don't use fd anymore........

I understand. But I want to be shure, that I am on the secure side. I switched from indows recently and still have "gaps" in understanding linux. I just want possibility to boot into hd installed knppix, if sth happens with boot sector or lilo. And this ican happen, if you have more partitions on the disk.

[Robert Michel]

Salve o_corn!

>I understand. But I want to be shure, that I am on the secure side. I >switched from indows recently and still have "gaps" in understanding >linux.

I hoped someone other take-over and explaind you better what I havn't.

>I just want possibility to boot into hd installed knppix, if sth >happens with boot sector or lilo. And this ican happen, if you have >more partitions on the disk.
I fear what I wrote would only help for booting CD-ROMs.
A command like mkbootfd would not be bad-
BUT now you have a KNOPPIX CD.

I can remember, years ago that I fight with lilo, faild and
couln'd boot my system anymore. If today something would go
wrong, I could take a Knoppix-CD to repair this fault.

Read http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/LILO.html to learn more about LILO.
AFAI kow you can use boot=fd0 in your lilo.config to write LILO to
your floppy.
A good toutorial to become familar with GNU/Linux is the rutebook:
http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/rute.html.gz

Beside my opinion, that Knoppix as rescue-tool is better
than a boot-disc, your question is still unanswered, and a good one:
How to make a bootdisc later?

Greetings
rob

[o_corn]

Thank you. I have to say that it helps me a lot. I just turned upside down my thinking about the "problem". I am still thinking too windowish.