On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 11:20:27AM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 12:45:25AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > after a earlier message i did some testing of dd floppy images and > > Apple's disk copy 6.3.3, a friend of mine claimed it would make > > floppies from dd images with no special effort, i however had to fsck > > with it to get it to work... but it DOES work: > > Thanks! Committed to debian-cd. great! > > you must set the file type and creator of the dd image to type: `DDim' > > Creator: ddsk > > > when the floppy is ejected SET THE WRITE PROTECT TAB! otherwise if > > you accidently mount it in macos, macos will `helpfully' ruin it. > > Blah. We need to document that somewhere. Feel like a patch to the > boot-floppies CVS? :P hum where would such docs go? BTW did you integrate the other docs i wrote for you ;-) (the instructions for creating a bootstrap partition and installing the yaboot stuff initially after a base install, all at http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/debian/) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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