Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 11 Jan 1997 22:06:57 +0100 | From | Alexandre Maret <> | Subject | Re: copy zImage _from_ floppy to disk |
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Steve Cahill wrote: > > I seemed to have misplaced my zImage, but have it on the (simple) boot > floppy. > > How can one use 'dd' to copy the boot zImage from the floppy to disk?
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/zImage bs=1024 count=450
This is assuming that the kernel image is smaller than 450k (simple assumption). This will create a file bigger than needed, but will work. I think that you could find out the exact size of the kernel, but I'd have to look at the sources...
alex
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