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Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 11:48:12 -0400
From: Bill Vermillion <bill@wjv.com>
To: Francis Vidal <francisv@dagupan.com>
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Subject: Re: Boot diskette
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On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 11:00:06PM +0800, Francis Vidal thus sprach:
> Thanks! How do I transfer it from the FreeBSD box to the floppy drive? 'dd
> if=/fixit.flp of=/dev/fd0' ?
> 

/dev/fd0 is a generic device used for reading multiple densities.

You want   of=/dev/rfd0.1440 for 1.44MB floppies

setting bs to 5120 will speed things up.

The docs should be there in README files


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