RE: [TCLUG:3207] boot.img on floppy Help Please

["Carl Patten" <cpatte@trimodalinc.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rtp@daddy.static.iaxs.net [mailto:rtp@daddy.static.iaxs.net]On
>
> dd if=/home/rtp/bootdisk/boot.img of=/dev/fd0 sb=8192
> dd if=/home/rtp/bootdisk/boot.img of=/dev/fd0 sb=1440        <--I think
> that's the number HELP

Excuse me for being a little grouchy here, but it's important to include the
actual command line you used.  "sb" is not a dd option.  "bs", however, is.

"bs" stands for "block size."  It's optional, but 8k is a pretty good
default.  So you'd use the following command:

dd if=/home/rtp/bootdisk/boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=8k

You can also check the sizes of your boot.img and supp.img files.  They
should both be exactly 1,474,560 bytes.  Be sure you downloaded them in
binary format.

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Carl Patten
Systems Administrator
Trimodal Inc.