From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 18 01:36:24 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA24680 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 01:36:24 -0700 Received: from zaphod (zaphod.ttu.ee [193.40.254.227]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA24670 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 01:36:18 -0700 Received: from juku.li.ttu.ee by zaphod (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA01944; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 11:36:35 +0300 Received: by juku.li.ttu.ee (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA17044; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 11:35:09 +0300 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 11:35:09 +0300 From: tanel@juku.li.ttu.ee (Tanel Kuusk) Message-Id: <9504180835.AA17044@juku.li.ttu.ee> To: questions@FreeBSD.org, raj@hpisrdq.cup.hp.com Subject: Re: dd instead of rawrite? X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Is it possible to use "dd" on a running FreeBSD system instead of > rawrite on a DOS system to make the boot floppies? Should I target a > specific partition of "fd?" Sure it is. The target must be either /dev/fd?d or /dev/fd?.1440 `Tanel