Creative uses for COL

Leon Goldstein metapsych
Fri Feb 25 13:53:33 PST 2005


Matthew Carpenter wrote:

>You might be better to dd the image, then gzip it and send it.  That
>will grab the whole image, bit-by-bit so the floppy can be completely
>recreated.  Otherwise Rick's left having to "make" it bootable.
>
>dd if=/dev/fd0 of=COLbootFloppy.img
>
>Then Rick does:
>
>dd if=COLbootFloppy.img of=/dev/fd0
>
>and he's in business.
>
>  
>
Thanks Matthew; I just sent Rick an inage per your suggestion.
Out of curiosity, how does one "make" a bootable Linux floppy?

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Leon A. Goldstein

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