[techtalk] Easy question, but necessary one(:

Nicole Zimmerman colby at wsu.edu
Mon Mar 26 08:26:00 EST 2001


> How do you create a boot disk? I tried to install Mandrake on my 2nd hd last
> night and messed up the boot blocks(: My friend showed me how to get my comp
> up and running again from the windows 98 cd... but I'd feel better having a
> boot disk around anyways, just in case...

I think someone answered the Win98 question (if you were asking that part
:o)), but for your distro there should likely be a program called "mkboot"
or "mkbootdisk". It will ask for a floppy and dump the necessary
information to disk.

-nicole





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