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Hi,
  I have had RedHat Linux 3.0 running on my PC for about 4 months now
and I am generally very happy with everything.  However, things have
been so stable that I expect something to go awry anytime now.

When I installed linux on my machine, I also created a boot diskette.
I'd like to have a backup, just in case, but don't know how to do so.
With Slackware, I just needed to copy the vmlinuz image to the floppy
but RedHat seems to be different - could anyone help me here?  

Thanks a lot,
-- leena singh
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Eric

Quote:>Hi,
>  I have had RedHat Linux 3.0 running on my PC for about 4 months now
>and I am generally very happy with everything.  However, things have
>been so stable that I expect something to go awry anytime now.

>When I installed linux on my machine, I also created a boot diskette.
>I'd like to have a backup, just in case, but don't know how to do so.
>With Slackware, I just needed to copy the vmlinuz image to the floppy
>but RedHat seems to be different - could anyone help me here?  

dd if=/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0

anything on the floppy will be destroyed, but you'll have a kernel that
points to your root partition.  This works fine in Redhat.

However, if you want to make up some recovery disks, with a complete set
of utilities for fixing problems should your file system zonk out, I'd
suggest that you look into a package like yard-1.7.  You can find it,
and some other similar packages, at sunsite.  If you want to persue this
further, I'd also suggest looking at the Bootdisk-HOWTO.  With the yard
package, I've built some recovery disks that include taper to access
tape backups.  I'm sleeping a little better now.  :-)  

Good luck,
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Scott Sellers  |