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bongski55
04-27-2003, 03:50 AM
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
04-27-2003, 06:17 AM
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
04-27-2003, 06:28 AM
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
04-27-2003, 02:44 PM
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!
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