Format for Boot Floppy

[bongski55]

I am just curious-this is not a big issue but annoying to me(only little).

When I want to reuse a knoppix boot floppy in win 98 -i.e. do a quick erase, a message comes up that the disk is not formatted. I have to do a full format.

So what format does the rawwrite do to floppy?

[Stephen]

It writes an image of the boot disk to the floppy. Windows will not see the disk as formatted as there is no fat on it.

[bongski55]

Thanks for the quick reply.

Actually it might damage the floppy drive because in my case when I access the kn boot floppy(in win98)the drive seems to make very strange noises as it tries to read it.

So a word of caution to everyone who read this!

[A. Jorge Garcia]

It uses a linux format file system like ext2 I think. Once you have a linux system running, you don't ever need to rawrite again simply open a konsole window and type:

dd if=boot-en.img of=/dev/fd0

dd is a disk copy command that can even burn cds

if is input file (source)

of is output file (destination)

boot-en.img is the floppy image

/dev/fd0 is the floppy drive

Good Luck!