writing img files on floppies

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Thu May 5 15:17:30 UTC 2005


On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 04:02:18PM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> >I have some boot files with img extension that need to be written on 
> >floppies. 
> >How can I do that from Fedora?
> # dd if=yourfile.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k

Any particular reason for 18k? (Just curious -- clearly having something
bigger than the default is good.)

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