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@@ -38,13 +38,13 @@ Making a Root File System
The following steps will create a root file system.
- Create an empty file that you can format as a filesystem:
-
+
dd if=/dev/zero of=rootfs bs=1k count=4000
- Set up the rootfs file we just created to be used as a loop device (may not
- be necessary)
+ be necessary)
- losetup /dev/loop0 rootfs
+ losetup /dev/loop0 rootfs
- Format the rootfs file with a filesystem:
@@ -101,15 +101,15 @@ The following steps will create the boot floppy.
Note: You will need to have the mtools package installed beforehand.
- Insert a floppy in the drive and format it with an MSDOS filesystem:
-
+
mformat a:
(if the system doesn't know what device 'a:' is, look at /etc/mtools.conf)
- Run syslinux on the floppy:
-
+
syslinux -s /dev/fd0
-
+
(the -s stands for "safe, slow, and stupid" and should work better with
buggy BIOSes; it can be omitted)