making a boot diskette

[hictio]

hi, it seems like i have screwed something of my beloved 486 install, and i have to boot from a diskette, i`ve used lilo to do that, but now ti doesn`t work, once it tries to boot linux, it prints a lot characters and does nothing.
i`d l;ike to make a couple of copies of my boot diskette: is ti true that all i have to do is:

cp /vmlliuz /dev/fd0; sync

thanks in advance.

[perazzo_br2]

If your linux is installed and working, run this command:

lilo -b /dev/fd0

or

/usr/sbin/lilo -b /dev/fd0

[mikek147]

I don't know if it's available on other distros, but Debian has the command /usr/bin/mkboot which does make a boot disk. If you don't have mkboot, you might try Bootdisk - HOWTO. -mk

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[hictio]

thank you both of you.
perazzo_br2, yes, luckily, my linux box is up and running, the only problem is that, after being up for more that 40 days, and after a lot of fumblin around with it; my linux box refuses to boot from the hard disk -via lilo-; like it used to.
i don`t mind booting from a diskette, all i want is to make a couple of copies of that boot disk, just is case.
mike, thank you very much for the how-to, i`m reading that, right now.
system info: 486, slackware 4.0.0, a `linux only` system.
thank you again.