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- Path: sparky!uunet!infonode!bluenote!tracy
- From: tracy@bluenote.b23b.ingr.com (Robert Tracy)
- Subject: Re: formatting
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.132801.6164@infonode.ingr.com>
- Sender: usenet@infonode.ingr.com (Usenet Administrator)
- Reply-To: tracyre@infonode.ingr.com
- Organization: DAZIX, An Intergraph Company
- References: <1992Aug12.015419.2738@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 13:28:01 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- In article <1992Aug12.015419.2738@athena.mit.edu>, hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com (Kevin W. Hammond) writes:
- |> I'm about to install my first kernel since I converted from DOS to Linux 0.96.
- |> Under DOS, I remember using rawrite to place the boot image on the floppy.
- |> How will this be accomplished under Linux? The 0.97 README states that a
- |> formatted floppy is needed. What program should be used to format the disk?
-
- With Linux, if you have a bootimage file which you want to put on a
- floppy, the floppy doesn't need to be formatted. You can simply
- execute the command:
-
- $ cat bootimage > /dev/PS0
-
- Substitute whatever device is appropriate for your floppy drive.
-
-
- If you want to format a DOS diskette, I believe that you use the
- mtools command:
-
- $ mkdfs -f a: (b:)
-
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