You use rawrite from a DOS prompt on a DOS or Windows host. cd to its
directory, then type
rawrite<ENTER>
and rawrite will prompt you for the filename of the image you want to put on
the disk. Enter this (including the full pathname) followed by <ENTER>. If
rawrite finds the image where you said it is, it will prompt you to put a
formatted floppy in your drive. Note that this floppy has to have NO BAD
SECTORS -- rawrite can't work around them.
But if you have a running Linux host, yuo can create images from it a bit
more simply. Any of these will work (again, with a formatted disk with no
bad sectors in the floppy drive):
1. dd if=/cdrom/somedirectory/somefilename of=/dev/fd0
2. cp /cdrom/somedirectory/somefilename /dev/fd0
3. cat /cdrom/somedirectory/somefilename >/dev/fd0
At 07:20 AM 6/8/99 -0400, Robert M. Woods wrote:
>Hi again,
> Sorry for the lack of info on my e-mail, I am using Red Hat 5.2 if that
>helps. And to John Aldridge, thanks for the indepth answer, but how do I
>use the rawrite command to make this installation disk??
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