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System Maintenance and Administration (cont.)

III. Emergency boot disk creation
 

A. Install the mkbootdisk RPM package from linux.fnal.gov. NOTE: This package is NOT in the standard distribution. It is in /linux/51test/i386/RedHat/RPMS.

B. Obtain a floppy disk, any 1.44M floppy disk, and place it in the drive. WARNING: This will erase all data!

C. As root, edit the /sbin/mkbootdisk shell script and make the following changes at about line 117. It should look like this:
 

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[ -n "$verbose" ] && echo -n "Formatting $device... "
setfdprm -p $device 1440/1440
fdformat -n $device
mke2fs $device > /dev/null 2>/dev/null
[ -n "$verbose" ] && echo "done."
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D. Type /sbin/mkbootdisk.

E. Test the disk by leaving it in the drive and rebooting the machine.