boot disk

David Wallis dandewallis at serv.net.au
Thu Feb 26 21:53:33 GMT 2004



James Richard Tyrer wrote:

> David Wallis wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> I am running Mandrake 9.2 and KDE 3.0 and am having trouble making a 
>> boot disk
>> In a shell, as su,  I format a floppy  with gfloppy to Linux Native 
>> (ext2)
>> I issued the command
>> mkbootdisk  2.4.22-10mdk
>> and I get the reply ... cp: writing `/tmp/mkbootdisk/initrd.img': No 
>> space left on device
>> When I look at the floppy it has three entries ... initrd.img  
>> ldlinux.sys  vmlinuz
>> When I try to boot with the disk it ends up
>> Could not find kernel image :Linux boot
>> Any help, greatly appreciated
>
>
> Check to see if your: "/tmp/" directory (on your HD) is full.
>
> -- 
> JRT

Checked /tmp Has three entries ... gconfd-root (empty), orbit-root 
(empty) and mc-root which contains mncext94fe which is listed as 45

Sould I increase the size of my /tmp directory. If so, how please
Thanks
David

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