How to make a Slackware boot disk. (0) Use an existing boot disk as a template. dd it out to a floppy. I usually use scsi.s as a template disk. (1) Mount the disk to /mnt (2) cat > /mnt/vmlinuz (3) cat System.map | gzip -9c > /mnt/System.map.gz (4) cat config | gzip -9c > /mnt/config.gz (5) Edit /mnt/boot/message and make any changes you want. (6) rdev -R /mnt/vmlinuz 0 (7) rdev /mnt/vmlinuz /dev/fd0u1440 (8) rdev -r /mnt/vmlinuz 49152 (9) lilo -r /mnt (A) umount /mnt