On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 11:19 +0200, Andre Tertling wrote: > Gildor Inglorion wrote: > > i am using linux and i downloaded the .img bootdisk > > image from the download page. > > I don't know what to do with such file. I mounted it > > on a dir, then i mcpied its contents to a disk, but > > the disk couldn't boot > > The .img file represents a 1:1 image of the boot disk. You will have to > write it directly to a floppy, I am no linux guru, but I guess "dd" is a > decent tool to achieve this. You will want to read the man pages for dd > before trying anything :) > There is also a dd varient for use in a dos box in Win32 I recently tested it in XP home edition. Its command line is significantly different so do the homework.
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