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  From: kevin@oceania.net
  To  : Matthew Hamnett <hammer@epc.net.au>
  Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 10:52:22 +1100

Re: Can anyone help a newbie?

Matthew Hamnett wrote:

> Hi Everyone !
>
> First : My Name is Matt. I live in Port Lincoln.

oh, sorry  ;)

> If any of these ramblings make sense to anyone - PLEASE HELP. Basically
> I need to make a boot disk for a kernel  I'm not booted into.

put a floppy into the first floppy drive, do not mount it and use this
command:
dd if=/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage of=/dev/fd0

This will make a new boot floppy with the new kernel image, simply reboot

kind regards
Kevin