Re: Er...how to dd disk image to floppy.

[Matthew John Palmer <nospam [at] uow.edu.au>]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Barrie Bremner wrote:

>  I`m trying to get a disk image from my Redhat 6.1 CD
> (/mnt/cdrom/images/bootnet.img) to a floppy to boot with to install via
> ftp.
> 
>  Unfortunately, I can`t figure out how to use dd properly...nothing
> seems to work.

The dd program is one of those little utils that you can never get right at
first.  Like tar.  Anyway, the usual form is like:

dd if=<infile> of=<outfile> bs=512

To dump a file somewhere else.  In this case, you'd want something like:

dd if=/mnt/cdrom/images/bootnet.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=512

Which will dump the appropriate sort of things to floppy for you.


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