From: smp@myamig2.myamiga.mixcom.com (Steve Palm) Subject: Re: Can I use dd on my UNIX system instead of Rawrite? Date: 18 Aug 1992 15:28:22 GMT
smace@nyx.cs.du.edu (Scott Mace) writes:
: >>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.
I believe bs is buffer size. It's set to 8K to increase throughput with
the floppy device.