How To Install mkbootdisk on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mkbootdisk on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mkbootdisk.
Install mkbootdisk on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install mkbootdisk using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install mkbootdisk
Install mkbootdisk on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install mkbootdisk using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mkbootdisk
How To Uninstall mkbootdisk on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the mkbootdisk package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mkbootdisk
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mkbootdisk on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.