[pocket-linux] chapter 2

[David Horton]

Stephen C. Jones wrote:
> two questions
> 
> 1) there wasn't a file named 'boot.b' in /boot....i did find 'boot.0300' (note 
> I am running mandrake 9.0). Is this the same file? or where do I go from 
> here?

I think that if you have a newer version of LILO that there might not be 
a boot.b.  boot.300 is different, so don't use it.  Try LILO without 
boot.b and see if it works.

> 
> 2) what would cause me to get the message 'mknod: 'fd0' : Operation not 
> permitted' ??

This is probably a permissions problem.  I don't think you can do 
'mknod' if you are not root.