> -----Original Message----- > From: Charlie Brady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 11:24 AM > Subject: RE: [e-smith-devinfo] reinstallation disk errors > > On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Smith, Jeffery S (Scott) wrote: > > > Okay, I needed to test that last step. 'cp' doesn't like non-standard > > device sizes, so another copy method is probably needed -- rawread, > > perhaps. > > > Or perhaps cp doesn't like to copy device nodes .. or does like to > copy devices nodes and not the "contents" of the device
Actually, for many devices, and always the normally formatted floppies, cp works just fine both to read and write a disk image. > > # cp /dev/fd0 /etc/e-smith/floppy/boot.img > > dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/etc/e-smith/floppy/boot.img > > or > > dd if=/dev/fd0Hnnnn of=/etc/e-smith/floppy/boot.img The problem turned out not to be either cp or dd -- the 1760K format uses 22 sectors/track, and that appears to be a problem for some drives. Replace the /dev/fd0u1760 with /dev/fd0u1722 in the original instructions and all appears well. The 1722K format is what Microsoft used to use on their installation disks. I suspect it would be universally supported. Scott -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
