[NCLUG] Making boot disk w/o rawrite?

Mike Loseke mike at verinet.com
Fri Feb 15 13:11:00 MST 2002


Thus spake crucial:
> 
> Hi all-
> 	My windows machine lost its one and only hard drive yesterday, and
> I thought I'd take this opportunity to play with linux on the good
> hardware for once (with a spare drive I had lying around).  Problem is,
> KRUD 7.2 doesn't seem to want to boot from CD (even though the bios
> settings say otherwise...), and I don't know how to make a boot image on
> a floppy without a windows box and rawrite.  Anyone want to point me in
> the right direction? Much obliged,

 If you have a linux box running you can use 'dd' to write the floppy:

# dd if=/path/to/image of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024

 That should work.

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