On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:24:00AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > [snip] > > >bootable floppy disk with it. This is different than a windows/dos > >made bootable floppy in that it doesn't have any windows or dos system > >on it. You use any blank floppy and the rawrite program to copy the > >disk image over to the floppy. make sense? > > I believe that the disc must have been formatted. Unless a low-level > format has been done to establish sectors, I don't think dd could > write to the floppy. It must also have a BR with a BPB in it, I do > believe, else how could it distinguish, e.g. 720K floppy from a 1.44M > floppy? If I can find a floppy I am willing to degauss, I'll give it > a try... not to argue :) but the debian installer manual chapter 4.3 makes no reference to formatting the floppy. It does refer to make a "sector copy" and writing in a raw format which tells me its bit-for-bit copy of a disk including its boot sectors and fs. man dd is suitably uninformative. I can't honestly say what condition the last set of floppies I dd'ed were, but I do know they wouldn't boot before and would boot after... A
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