RE: What is the dd command ???
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From: Mike McCarty [mailto:Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 10:24 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: What is the dd command ???
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
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> 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...
> As I've said elsewhere, you need 3 floppies -- boot.img, root.img and
> cd-drivers.img to get your system to boot into the debian installer.
Mike
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It is working, thanks to everyone...
You were all a lot of help...
I used NTRawrite.exe on an XP Pro machine and it worked great... I
got three disks... boot, root, and cd_drivers all working great... and it
started the Debian installation from the DVD just like it was supposed to...
it is much better than the CD version... swapping disks back and forth to
get the experimental server up and running the way you want it to run...
I couldn't have done it without all your help...
Most sincerely,
Dan
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