Re: how to write a floppy using dd?
> I tried to write the installation diskettes with the command
>
> dd if=1440_boot_floppy of=/dev/fd1 bs=18k
>
> It showed
>
> 80+0 records in
> 80+0 records out
>
Hmm.... Perhaps the floppies don't like using a block size of 18k. I've
found that:
dd if=1440_... of=/dev/fdx bs=1024 count=1440
works quite well. Where ... is whatever disk your installing, and 'x' is
either 0 or 1, whichever points to your 3 1/2 floppy.
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