Recreating an installation disk

[Jerry Feldman]

>> 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.
Also, the disk must be a cleanly formatted floppy with NO bad tracks. I ran
into this when I formatted a floppy, and failed to notice that there were some
bad sectors. A disk formatted with bad sectors will work fine for DOS, but not
for Unix et. al.