Re: dd

Subject: Re: dd
From: Arthur Corliss (arthur@corlissfamily.org)
Date: Sun Mar 17 2002 - 10:56:11 AKST

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On 16 Mar 2002, Greg Madden wrote:

> > Greg told Stan how to use the dd command to copy a boot image onto a
> > floppy Friday, I am trying to do the same thing....alas, I cannot
> > remember what the command was. There were lots of if= involved. Can
> > anyone (Greg) help me out?
>
> 'man dd' should do it.

Why make it that difficult? Just 'cat boot.img > /dev/fd0'. This works in
both directions with any media, assuming the original and target geometry
is the same. . .

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