>The easy way to make a bootdisk has _no_ tolerance for bad
> blocks. Just copy the boot image to the raw device with, say
> cp <image> /dev/fd0 if you have a linux system.
>
NOOOOOO!!! use the following command: "dd if=<imagename> of=/dev/fd0" (minus
quotes.) For example, if you're using boot.img, the command would be (from
the directory with "boot.img") dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0 <enter>
This will create the "boot" disk for CDROM or local hard drive install. I
have no idea if your suggestion above works or not, but the "proper" way to
do it is listed above. This is essentially the same as "rawrite" for Linux.
I *do* know that just copying the image file to a floppy under MSDOS/Win9x
will NOT work... so I don't see why copying it to a floppy will work under
Linux. :-)
John
