Recreating an installation disk

[jabr at bcslnx.bcs.org (John Abreau)]

>> I trying to install Linux at home and have run into a problem with my 
>> Root disk; it seems to have become corrupted. The disk drive wont read it.
>> Having Slackware running on my machine at work, is there a way in LInux 
>> to create seperate installation disks? (Such as another Root disk?)
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> =========================================================================
>> Vincent Cocco
>> Suffolk University     email:  cocco at misty.suffolk.edu
>> Boston, MA 02108
>> =========================================================================
>> 
>> 

You should be able to create a new root disk by copying the disk image
to the floppy device. You'll probably have to do this as root.

The following should work, assuming you've put a formatted floppy
into drive A:

% gunzip color144.gz
% su
# cp color144 /dev/fd0

For drive B, copy to /dev/fd1 instead.

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