Floppy disk (filesystem size)

[Rick Stevens]

bruce wrote:
> fred....
> 
> if possible, what exactly are you trying to accomplish? what's your current
> hardware/OS setup?
> 
> -bruce
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Fred Nussbaum
> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 1:30 PM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Floppy disk (filesystem size)
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'need to write 1440 (1K blocks) to a floppy disk.
> This is the size of a driver for the hardware, that I
> need to be able to install FC3 (from an (FC3-)ISO
> image) .
> How do I create a floppy that can hold 1440 (1K
> blocks)? Or what alternative do I have?

If you have the image file in the file "diskimage.img", do

	dd if=diskimage.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k count 1440

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