On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Richard Atterer wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:51:20PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > Those seem to be the rescue.bin files. I wouldn't be surprised if the 0's > > are associated with the boot block, since they are bootable floppies. > > Yes, and I wouldn't be surprised at all if everything continued to work > fine after you did the following to the image: > > dd if=/dev/random of=image bs=16 seek=63 count=1 Putting random code in the boot record is a bad idea. For sure, someone is going to accidently boot them, and for sure the result of doing so is undefined.
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