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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: Stryker on 24 August 2002, 19:51

Title: rawrite in linux?
Post by: Stryker on 24 August 2002, 19:51

Is there a command in linux similar or equivalent to the rawrite found in the dosutils folder of the redhat cdrom? I need to make a kickstart floppy, but don't want to go into windows for it. Thanks.

Title: rawrite in linux?
Post by: theangelofdeath69 on 24 August 2002, 19:53

Well, there's actually a free Kickstart-type rescue floppy called Tom's Root Boot Disk which (I think) has an image program with it...

Title: rawrite in linux?
Post by: Stryker on 24 August 2002, 19:57

There are lots of places to get floppies, but I had to make a custom boot image to fit the network card of my computers. I am almost positive linux comes with a way of writing a boot image to a floppy, but sadly I do not know how.

Title: rawrite in linux?
Post by: theangelofdeath69 on 24 August 2002, 19:59

Well, I realise that, but it IS a floppy image.  Wouldn't it HAVE to come with an image writing program?

Title: rawrite in linux?
Post by: Stryker on 24 August 2002, 20:00

it does, rawrite.exe in the dosutils of the linux cd.

Title: rawrite in linux?
Post by: Stryker on 24 August 2002, 20:04

Aw, I got it. dd... of course, stupid me.

Title: rawrite in linux?
Post by: theangelofdeath69 on 24 August 2002, 20:06

Bitch.  Didn't realise that one...

Using dd under Linux to write standard density floppies
  If you have another Linux based system you can use the following to copy the disk image to a 1440kb diskette:

 
dd if=fd.f14 of=/dev/fd0
or
dd if=fd.f14 of=/dev/fd0 bs=10k
(uses higher blocking factor to get faster write to disk)
 
 
Found that in a Google Search...

if is the image file, of is the drive to copy to

  :eek:

Title: rawrite in linux?
Post by: theangelofdeath69 on 24 August 2002, 20:08

Er, didn't get your post before replying.

What the hell, though

Title: rawrite in linux?
Post by: Stryker on 24 August 2002, 20:08

Well now I got to put this little guy to the test, be back later.

Title: rawrite in linux?
Post by: theangelofdeath69 on 24 August 2002, 20:09

Hehe.  Cool, CYa   (http://smile.gif)