>>>I've been thinking. Instead of using rawrite on DOS to put the binary
>>>Linux images onto diskettes, couldn't one just copy the images to the
>>>raw floppy device on their UNIX system such as:
>>>
>>> cp boot-US.1 /dev/pdsk/1
>>
>>Well, I'm not sure what you meant by /dev/pdsk/1, but something like
>> cp /etc/Image /dev/fd0
>>will definitely work (replace /etc/Image with any filename, and
>>/dev/fd0 with any floppy drive).
>>
>>>Or use dd(1)? I'm pretty sure this would accomplish the same thing as
>>>rawrite under DOS. Has someone tried this?
>>
>>dd will work too, but cp is easier...
>>
>don't forget you need to do dd bs=8192 if=Image of=/dev/PS0
>
>bs = bootsector and you need this for the kernel boot disk in order for
>it to work. I don't no what will happen if you don't use the 'bs'
>option.
Wrong. bs=block size.
This is how much dd will read before writing it - 8K will be faster than
the smaller 512 byte or 1K default.
It will work fine if you leave off BS.
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