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.
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?
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.
Thanks for the quick reply.
Actually it might damage the floppy drive because in my case when I access the kn boot floppy(in win9the drive seems to make very strange noises as it tries to read it.
So a word of caution to everyone who read this!
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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