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| DATE | 2005-10-05 |
| FROM | Matthew
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Nedded: High Density Diskette Greater than1.44MB Needed.
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I am now thinking a little bit clearer.
If it is a linux floppy image you should not have a file linux.tgz,
you should have a file .img which should be aprox 1.44 meg
if that was the case then you would be able to do a dd (if you are
running a linux system) or using the program rawrite.exe to write it
to a floppy disk if you are using a windows system.
for linux the command would be dd if=(filename).img of=/dev/fd0H1440 bs=18k
If they gave you just a file linux.tgz then something is funky because that
would be just the kernel and you need to have a pretty small kernel
for a floppy distribution. It would NOT be 2meg.
Matthew
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 03:41:00PM -0400, mlr52-at-michaellrichardson.com wrote:
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> you need to raw write it. I don't have the command on hand.
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: Ruben Safir
> Subj: Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Nedded: High Density Diskette Greater than1.44MB Needed.
> Date: Wed Oct 5, 2005 3:33 pm
> Size: 902 bytes
> To: Matthew
> cc: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com
>
> Isn't there a way to make a floppy image on the hard drive as a file,
> and then just dd it or cat it onto the disk?
>
> How can a system boot off a floppy without a file system?
>
> Ruben
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