Re: Debian repair reload drama howto?
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:04:58 -0700
"high_desert" <hidesert@cox.net> wrote:
> <snip>
> --> > Got the tomsrtbt floppy and booted off it (unable to create
> --> this floppy from
> --> > Windows as there is no true DOS mode anymore - why doesn't a
> --> rawrite version
> --> > exist?)
> -->
> --> Taken from http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite.htm
> -->
> --> "rawwrite (or rawrite) is the essential utility for creating
> --> boot and root disks for installing Linux. Unfortunately, it
> --> required DOS to operate, so here is the long awaited WIN32
> --> version. It works under Windows NT, 2K, XP, 95, 98 and ME."
> <snip>
>
> Yeah, but wouldn't the tomsrtbt need to exist as an image file which the W32
> rawrite could understand and use?
>
>
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Usually .img is used, but Tom's .raw might work with rawrite as well. The extension is not essential. If it complains just rename the file ;)
Andrei
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