Re: potato boot floppies

[Mirek Kwasniak <mirek@zind.ikem.pwr.wroc.pl>]

On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 02:53:36PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote:
> When writing - or trying to, anyway - the images, I get the following:
> 
> hp90:/mnt/hd2/data/Tmp/potato # dd of=/dev/fd0 if=base-1.bin bs=1024
> dd: /dev/fd0: No space left on device
> 5+0 records in
> 4+0 records out
> hp90:/mnt/hd2/data/Tmp/potato # cmp /dev/fd0 base-1.bin
> cmp: /dev/fd0: I/O error
> 
> What's the problem? This is a normal 1.44 MB image used with an
> (unformatted) new floppy of the same size!?
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Problem is that diskette is unformated :)
Yes, yes - you don't need any filesystem on it but formatted sectors are
necessary :(

Mirek