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| 117293 | 2003-01-30 08:55:00 | got this floppy image file extention .dsk inside it contains linux system file it is a bootable image for burning onto a cd for floppy emulation is there a way i can get this image onto a actual physical floppy disk instead of putting it on cd and emulate it as floppy many dsk writing tools are for linux only is there some raw writing tool for windows that i can use |
heni72847 (1166) | ||
| 117294 | 2003-01-30 08:58:00 | I think that if you do a google search for: rawwrite.exe or: rawrite.exe it'll yeild a few results, and one can be used for that purpose AFAIK! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 117295 | 2003-01-31 04:18:00 | I think that every distribution has a "dosutils" directory on the first CD . That will contain RAWRITE . EXE . Otherwise it will be in many places on the Internet . It is a DOS programme . It will write an image directly to a floppy; it does not create files and DOS directory entries . However, it suffers from the DOS lack of error checking, so the disk needs to be perfect . (It does not look at the FAT so even if formatting has marked any bad sectors they will still be used) . I think it's an Error 10 when using the floppy if it was faulty . If you have a working Linux installtion, you can use dd to do the same: dd if=thefile . dsk of=/dev/fd0 bs=72k is what I use . (Don't mount the floppy . . . just insert it . ) |
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