Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 08 May 1996 16:41:10 -0400 | From | "Steven N. Hirsch" <> | Subject | 720k boot disk |
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Martin Konold wrote: > > On Sat, 4 May 1996 jerijian@seas.ucla.edu wrote: > > > BTW, doesn anyone know if I can cat a kernel image (Linux > > 1.3.98) to a 3.5" double-density (720k) floppy yet, or must I be > > forced to use LILO? > > Just give it a try! > I regularilly use dd if=/zImage of=/dev/fd0 bs=10k > It works flawlessly.
That's interesting. Is it strictly necessary to use dd with bs=10K? At one point in the past, I was able to do this by
cp zImage /dev/fd0
However, the last time I tried it I was utterly unable to produce a working boot disk. The above works fine on a 1.44M disk, BTW.
- Steve
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