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Posted: Aug. 28 2004,21:44 QUOTE
major problems with the dsl-8 boot floppy, trying to create but complains no space left on disk.......
these were brand new imitation disks purchased today....
antone else experinced problems...
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Posted: Aug. 28 2004,21:58 QUOTE
No problem with disk space but I did have to rename boot-0.8.0.img shorter before rawrite could see it.
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Posted: Aug. 28 2004,22:20 QUOTE
trying to do from within dsl.............. but thanks for info....
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Posted: Aug. 28 2004,23:01 QUOTE
You don't mention what you are trying to do.
Looking at the FAQ  http://damnsmalllinux.org/faq.html#floppy
and using that procedure from within DSL is no problem.

dd if=boot-0.8.0.img of=/dev/fd0
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Posted: Aug. 28 2004,23:08 QUOTE
der....... dosy me
silly bugg@r trying to do in emelfm.........
sorry, never had to do boot floppy always booted from old copy of cd, but thanks..........time for new cd me thinks......
that will teach me , I was starting to think i knew what is was doing!!!!!!!
But seriously thanks again, the support as always is faultless
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