<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonrysh@pacbell.net">jonrysh@pacbell.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 10:09 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:<br>
> | From: Fernando Cassia <<a href="mailto:fcassia@gmail.com">fcassia@gmail.com</a>><br>
><br>
> | On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 6:01 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <<a href="mailto:hugh@mimosa.com">hugh@mimosa.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> | > Unfortunately, the setfdprm command was dropped from Fedora around<br>
> | > Fedora Core 6.<br>
><br>
> | Have you tried what happens if you run Fedora Core 6 in a Virtualbox VM?<br>
><br>
> No. That might or might not work, depending on how the floppy<br>
> hardware is virtualized. On the other hand, I could just boot<br>
> whatever Fedora I wanted on the real hardware anyway.<br>
><br>
> Why was the command dropped? Would it no longer work? Is there<br>
> another way provided to accomplish the same thing?<br>
><br>
> I think SuSE dropped the command too. Debian and Ubuntu have it in the<br>
> fdutils package.<br>
<br>
</div>I would download the fdutils package from <a href="http://fdutils.linux.lu" target="_blank">http://fdutils.linux.lu</a> , try<br>
to compile and install them, and (if that works) then see what happens.<br>
<br>
jon<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>technically, if the physical device is in your bios, you should see a /dev/floppy device .<div>you should be able to mount this, or just dd it to a file</div><div>dd if=/dev/floppy of=img1.img<br clear="all">
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