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- From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: formatting
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.192550.2238@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 19:25:50 GMT
- References: <1992Aug12.015419.2738@athena.mit.edu>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Lines: 19
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- 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?
-
- Try
- dd if=xxx of=/dev/fd0
- (replace xxx with the name of the kernel image file). This will be done
- automatically if you compiler the kernel from sources and run "make
- disk".
-
- >The 0.97 README states that a
- >formatted floppy is needed. What program should be used to format the disk?
-
- fdformat is the program I use. I think it comes with the rootdisk,
- though I may be wrong.
-
- --
- Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi
-