Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Ronald J. Hall wrote:
It has to be a "bootable" DOS floppy disk, right? From what I remember it has to have a few system files on it.
FORMAT A:/S
or something like that, yes?
Yes, you will need a bootable floppy. The link I posted before was for an image of a bootable floppy. You can use dd to write the bootable image to a formated floppy. You may also be able to write it to an unformated floppy, but it may not work. I usualy use fdformat to format the floppy, but a fresh, out of the box pre-formatted floppy will work just fine. (Do they sell unformatted floppies any more?)
I did use dd to write the image to the formated floppy. That went very smoothly. Fdformat is the command to format a floppy? I used the the formatting program that comes installed on Mandrake with KDE. I can't remember the name right now but it didn't seem to format the floppy the first few times I tried. The progress bar didn't move. After several tries I saw the progress bar move.
Thanks for the information.
Eric Jackson
Mikkel
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