A favor with a common cause

Frank Wiles frank at wiles.org
Wed Oct 6 12:42:55 CDT 2004


On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:30:20 -0500
"Brian Kelsay" <Brian.Kelsay at kcc.usda.gov> wrote:

> Will it allow you to write a .img file in raw format like rawwrite and
> dd?  Before I messed around with Linux LiveCDs I used a lot of floppy
> based distros.  It hasn't been all that long since I did this, but
> using KDE to write the .img file was never mentioned, always rawrite
> or dd.   If this feature is now available, then cool.   I seem to
> recall now that the creator of rawwritewin was working on a
> rawwritelin, but it wasn't in a useable state at the time I last
> looked.   If it is done or I am imagining things, then I stand
> corrected.

  While I have used dd in the past to make these, I've always found
  this to be much easier: 

  cat floppy.img > /dev/fd0 

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   Frank Wiles <frank at wiles.org>
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