brianw
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Posted: July 12 2006,00:19 |
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| Quote (jjuuaannmmaa @ July 11 2006,15:03) | I don't want to bother, but can you tell me how to copy bootfloppy.img to a diskette, because I'm in a similar situation, but I don't know how to copy this file into a diskette, because the file is bigger than diskette capacity.
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under linux you would type
dd if=bootfloppy.img of=/dev/fd0
if is the input file. of is the output file (under unix everything is a file even the devices). This assumes that the floppy disk is the only one (floppy disk zero fd0).
if you are doing it under windows you would use a utility such as rawrite.
the reason the image is bigger than the floppy is because a formatted floppy contains a filesystem on it (DOS, apple, ext2, etc...). When you write an image to the floppy you are writing the filesystem as well so the image writes to the entire disk including the boot sector (writing starts at sector 0). On a formatted disk you only have access to the user sectors.
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