[ale] making a boot disk

[Yu, Jerry]

you didn't say 'count=1' or whatever number of blocks (with bs=1k) 

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Ken Nagorski wrote:

#Hi,
#
#	I am following the Linux bootdisk howto to the letter, however I
#thoguht I missed something but I still have the same prblem, I do a
#dd if=/dev/zero of=DEVICE bs=1k count=4096 to zero out the device,
#then mke2fs -m 0 -i 2000 DEVICE to make the filesystem, then when I
#transfer my boot disk stuff there, unmout it and then I issue this command
#dd if=DEVICE bs=1k | gzip -v9 > rootfs.gz (in all cases DEVICE is
#/dev/sda1) it always makes a zip file the size of the filesystem. 
#
#	Anyone know how to avoid this? I just want it the size of the
#files on the filesystem.
#
#Thanks
#Ken
#
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Jerry Z. Yu				mailto: z.yu at ptek.com
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