[ale] making a boot disk

[Ken Nagorski]

Hi,

	I am following the Linux bootdisk howto to the letter, however I
thoguht I missed something but I still have the same prblem, I do a
dd if=/dev/zero of=DEVICE bs=1k count=4096 to zero out the device,
then mke2fs -m 0 -i 2000 DEVICE to make the filesystem, then when I
transfer my boot disk stuff there, unmout it and then I issue this command
dd if=DEVICE bs=1k | gzip -v9 > rootfs.gz (in all cases DEVICE is
/dev/sda1) it always makes a zip file the size of the filesystem. 

	Anyone know how to avoid this? I just want it the size of the
files on the filesystem.

Thanks
Ken

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