Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 30 May 1996 22:04:21 +0100 (BST) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: 1.99.8: documentation for making boot floppy |
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On Thu, 30 May 1996, Shinanyaku wrote: > Some one wrote: > > > > dd bs=8192 if=/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage of=/dev/fd0 > > > > > > That's odd. Because just yesterday (when I was testing 1.99.8), I did > a > > cat ~/linux/zImage > /dev/fd0 > rdev -R /dev/fd0 1 > > with no problem. Isn't that functionally identical to using cp ? >
It only works if the disk is a High Density disk (ie 1.44M), it dosn't work with a double density disk (720k), because you can't get enough data (code) in the boot sector (I think, could be in the first track).
> Shin! Bryn -- PGP key pass phrase forgotten, \ Overload -- core meltdown sequence again :( | initiated. / This space is intentionally left | blank, apart from this text ;-) \____________________________________
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