Install Floppy

[Dave Parker]

I've always used dd.  Sometimes the blocksize SEEMS to make a
difference in whether or not the diskette will boot, but I've 
not yet detected any pattern to this, so it may just be my 
imagination.  I'd just use:

dd if=disk.img of=/dev/fd0

where disk.img is the name of the file you want to write to 
the floppy and /dev/fd0 is the device you want to write to.
If you set blocksize = to 18k, it will write 80 18k blocks

dd if=disk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k

but I'd try the first command first.  Block size (as well as
interleave) can make a big difference in how fast you can 
read and write from the disk, but obviously with a boot disk
the main thing is that you want it to boot.

Gene and Amy Dascher wrote:
> 
>         How do I create a network install boot disk from the iso images on my
> RedHat 6.1 CDROM without booting up to Windows and using rawrite?
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