Re: rawrite for linux

[renehl@post1.tele.dk (Rene Hojbjerg Larsen)]

homega@vlc.servicom.es wrote:

> Jonathan Sprague dixit:
>> 
>> dd if=FILE.EXT of=/dev/fd0 (for floppy a:)
> 
> say I want to make an image of Slackware's boot & root disks from my cdrom
> to the floppy, would it be as follows?:
> 
> mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /cdrom
> mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /floppy
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You should not mount the floppy if you are going to write to the floppy
device (/dev/fd0) directly.  Besides, these floppy images do not contain
ext2 file systems.

> dd if =/dev/hdb/bare.i of=/dev/fd0
> 
> dd if=/dev/hdb/color.gz of=/dev/fd0

You have mounted the CDROM on /cdrom, so these commands should read

dd if=/cdrom/bare.i of=/dev/fd0
dd if=/cdrom/color.gz of=/dev/fd0

Alternatively, you could use cp to do this:

cp /cdrom/bare.i /dev/fd0
...

> BTW, I believe obs=18k deals with disk space/capacity somehow.

This shouldn't matter as long as the floppies are low-level formatted in
advance (use superformat if they aren't).

HTH.
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