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On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
>
> >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
>
It _WILL_ work under Linux, because of the fact that /dev/fd0 is a device
and not a filesystem, whereas A: in DOS is a filesystem.
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