How To Install mkbootdisk on Fedora 34

mkbootdisk is Creates a boot floppy disk for booting a system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mkbootdisk on Fedora 34.

What is mkbootdisk

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.

We can use yum or dnf to install mkbootdisk on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mkbootdisk.

Install mkbootdisk on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install mkbootdisk using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mkbootdisk

Install mkbootdisk on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install mkbootdisk using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mkbootdisk

How To Uninstall mkbootdisk on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the mkbootdisk package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove mkbootdisk

mkbootdisk Package Contents on Fedora 34

/sbin/mkbootdisk
/usr/share/doc/mkbootdisk
/usr/share/doc/mkbootdisk/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/mkbootdisk.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mkbootdisk on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.