[ILUG] somebody shoot me

[Ulysees]

I'm trying to install lilo on a boot floppy and it's being awkward.
I already have a fs on the floppy and i'm really just swappin kernels.
I've mounted the disk, swapped the kernels, edited the lilo conf on floppy
but when i try to do a lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf -r /mnt/floppy -v 5 and it all
goes normally until i tries to actually read the boot sector of the floppy,
it come's back with "Fatal: open /dev/fd0: Permission denied"

Anybody remember what it is ?

while I'm at it

anyone know how to get around the 2gb limit in dd ?
i'm currently just doin a dd if=/dev/sda | gzip > /myfile.img.gz
but that bombs out if the image needs to be more than 2 gigs

uly