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Topic: prob. mking boot floppy

costi

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Posted: Feb. 27 2006,17:21

hi all,

I want to mk a boot disk for usb, but the img file is 1.4 mb and I can only write 1.38 mb why? are there alternatives?

THX

cbagger01

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Posted: Feb. 27 2006,18:16

So "rawrite for Windows" program or linux command:

dd if=usb_boot_floppy_file_name of=/dev/fd0

does not work?

costi

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Posted: Feb. 28 2006,15:24

OOHHH

I was puting the image file as a normall file, and not as a image on my flooby : -()

but now its working very well

2 replies since Feb. 27 2006,17:21