Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:37:50 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: pdmackenzie@Better.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot disk? Message-ID: <199809101837.LAA12435@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <19980910174738513.AAA412@qtimpact>
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>From: "doug mackenzie" <pdmackenzie@Better.net> >Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 13:34:24 -0400 >The problem- 1.44M floppies (on my machine anyway) seem to have a real >capacity of 1.38M while the "boot.flp" file is 1.4M. What gives? The "boot.flp" file is an image of the floppy -- just copy it on top of the floppy (rather than copying it as a file on the floppy). For example, in a normal UNIX environment, a way to do this is dd if=boot.flp of=/dev/rfd0 bs=720k and dd will come back & say that (exactly) 2 blocks were copied. That's how I create the boot floppies I use here. david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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