Re: usb floppy, image files
On 2009-08-20 14:56 (-0400), Hugh Lawson wrote:
> Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:
>> On 2009-08-20 09:08 (-0400), Hugh Lawson wrote:
>>> I'm looking for a program like 'dd' that can copy image files to a
>>> USB floppy drive.
>>
>> Why doesn't "dd" work? Did you try?
> I tried once more, and it did work this time.
>
> Earlier, I must have typed out the command incorrectly, and
> misunderstood the error messages.
OK. As you know "dd" is dangerous tool and usually it doesn't forgive
typing mistakes. My method with device names is that I pretty much
always use symlinks in /dev/disk/by-id or /dev/disk/by-label, never
/dev/sda1 etc.
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