Re: rawrite for linux

[Jonathan Sprague <jsprag@onet.net>]

I believe, (its been a while since I installed Slackware) you just need to dd
the boot disk. I don't think you even have to mount it (I could be wrong). For
the color.gz "root" disk I think you have to start with a clean dos-formated
disk and simply;

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
cp /mnt/cdrom/color.gz /mnt/floppy
umount /mnt/floppy

try that and see if it works!

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
>
> dd if =/dev/hdb/bare.i of=/dev/fd0
>
> dd if=/dev/hdb/color.gz of=/dev/fd0
>
> BTW, I believe obs=18k deals with disk space/capacity somehow.
>
> Cheers.
>
> --
> Un saludo,
>
> Horacio
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