Information about the package, mkbootdisk, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The mkbootdisk package is designed for, Creates a boot floppy disk for booting a system..
Package Name:
mkbootdisk
Summary:
Creates a boot floppy disk for booting a system.
Description:
The mkbootdisk program creates a standalone boot floppy disk for booting the running system. The created boot disk will look for the root filesystem on the device mentioned in /etc/fstab and includes an initial ramdisk image which will load any necessary SCSI modules for the system.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.5.5
Release:
3.el6
Size:
13 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the mkbootdisk package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install mkbootdisk
This command will install mkbootdisk on the server.
yum remove mkbootdisk
This command will un-install mkbootdisk on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove mkbootdisk, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove mkbootdisk
This command will un-install mkbootdisk on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove mkbootdisk when using the -y flag.
yum update mkbootdisk
This command will update mkbootdisk to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove mkbootdisk, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update mkbootdisk
This command will update mkbootdisk to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove mkbootdisk when using the -y flag.
yum info mkbootdisk
This command will show you core information about the mkbootdisk package.
yum deplist mkbootdisk
This command will show you the dependencies for mkbootdisk. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update mkbootdisk
This command will check if there is an update waiting on mkbootdisk. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.