Floppy disk (filesystem size)

[Fred Nussbaum]

Rick,

thanks a lot for your help/suggestion!

Fred.

--- Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> 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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