Slackware 9.1 question


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During installation I was prompted to make a rescue disk with a floppy. So I could boot into Slackware during startup. Is it possible to make a rescue disc with a CD. To boot with cdrom.

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Won't the installation cd just restart the install process. What I meant is that if you have no bootloader for example. You need to use a boot disc, so you just install your floppy. Can you create a cd to boot your installed operating system instead of floppy. Like SuSE will let you boot already installed SuSE installation with 1st DVD or CD. Creating something similar but with Slackware 9.1.

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The reason I am asking is because until I reloaded SuSE 8.2 with GRUB, I could not get into Slackware unless I used a boot floppy. I had to reconfigure GRUB and Lilo to work, so I would not need a floppy to boot. In the future I want to build a system that is floppy drive free. Like a Macintosh. CD are cheap these days so why use a floppy drive anyway. But I still want to be able to install Slackware.

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I believe that you can boot an already installed system by passing '<kernel> root=/dev/hdxX' to the CD's boot loader.

e.g. linux root=/dev/hda3

Don't forget to replace hda3 with your root partition. If that fails, try your boot partition, i can't remember which.

EDIT: I'm not sure if this is correct. It's a long time since I've had to do it, and I'm not going to reboot just to check it works.

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you can do this if you have nero and windows

you make a CD-rom (Boot) and you will see the steps. If you don't have access to this send me an e-mail with a tar.gz or tar or zip or some thing to

d e w y 1 2 8 at k o o e e . c o m . a u

and i will make into a ISO for you then send it back.

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I believe that you can boot an already installed system by passing '<kernel> root=/dev/hdxX' to the CD's boot loader.

e.g. linux root=/dev/hda3

Don't forget to replace hda3 with your root partition. If that fails, try your boot partition, i can't remember which.

EDIT: I'm not sure if this is correct. It's a long time since I've had to do it, and I'm not going to reboot just to check it works.

boot to the CD and it will have a boot: propmpt, use

bare.i root=/dev/hdaX noinitrd ro

where X is the number of your root partition.

You can also peel the lilo boot sector to a floppy disk and use that,

dd if=/dev/hdaX of=/mnt/floppy/boot.lnx bs=512 count=1

where X is your BOOT partition.

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