writing img files on floppies

[Paul Howarth]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 04:19:52PM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>>>># 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.)
>>
>>It's one track on a 1.44M floppy.
> 
> 
> Makes sense. What about bs=1440k?

That'd work too. Back in the days when I used floppies, I used to like 
seeing the:

80 records in
80 records out

after doing the dd; it gave me a nice sense of having worked. Oh well, 
enough reminiscing.

Paul.