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3.5 Making Boot and Ramdisk Floppies

Making Boot and Ramdisk Floppies

3.5.1 Making a Boot Floppy

Making a Boot Floppy

After you've made a MILO floppy, you need to make a boot floppy containing the appropriate Linux/Alpha kernel for your machine. The kernel images are on the Red Hat CD in the images/ directory; also there is a README file containing more information about the kernel images.

Available boot images include:

  1. cab.img (AlphaPC64, Cabriolet)
  2. noname.img (AxpPCI33, Noname, Universal Desktop Box)
  3. eb64p.img (EB64+, Aspen Timberlines)
  4. eb66.img (EB66)
  5. eb66p.img (EB66+)
  6. jensen.img (Jensens)
  7. avanti.img (AlphaStation 200, 250, 400)
  8. xl.img (Alpha XL)
  9. xlt.img (Alpha XTL)
  10. eb164.img (EB164 based machines)
  11. p2000.img (Platform 2000)
  12. pc164.img (Alcor based machines)
  13. alcor.img (Alcor based machines)
  14. mikasa.img (Mikasa based machines)

All of these images should work on machines with either VGA or TGA based graphics boards.

To make a kernel floppy, use either dd or rawrite. For example, using dd (under Linux or Unix):

cd /mnt/cdrom
dd if=images/your-image.img of=/dev/fd0

Using rawrite (under Microsoft Windows NT or MS-DOS):

d:
cd images
\dosutils\rawrite.exe

rawrite first asks you for the name of a diskette image; enter the name of the kernel image for your system (e.g., noname.img). Then it asks for a diskette drive to write the image to; enter a:.

Label the floppy ``Kernel floppy''.

3.5.2 Making a Ramdisk Floppy

Making a Ramdisk Floppy

The ramdisk image is located on the Red Hat CD as images/ramdisk.img. You can use dd or rawrite to write the image to a diskette, much as for the MILO floppy and the boot floppy. Using dd (under Linux or Unix):

cd /mnt/cdrom
dd if=images/ramdisk.img of=/dev/fd0

Using rawrite (under Microsoft Windows NT or MS-DOS):

d:
cd images
\dosutils\rawrite.exe

rawrite first asks you for the name of a diskette image; enter ramdisk.img. Then it asks for a diskette drive to write the image to; enter a:.

Label the floppy ``Ramdisk floppy''.


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