Subject: Re: dd
From: Greg Madden (pabi@gci.net)
Date: Sun Mar 17 2002 - 21:02:13 AKST
On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 10:56, Arthur Corliss wrote:
>
> 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. . .
Good tip, thanks. I also found another benefit. It is a good way to get
a kernel off from a floppy that is formated in vfat when your current
box has no such file system support :)
-- Greg Madden Precision Air Balance, Inc. email:pabi@gci.net Phone:(907)276-0461 Fax:(907)258-0461
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