writing img files on floppies

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu May 5 15:19:52 UTC 2005


Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 04:02:18PM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>>>I have some boot files with img extension that need to be written on 
>>>floppies. 
>>>How can I do that from Fedora?
>>
>># dd if=yourfile.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k
> 
> 
> Any particular reason for 18k? (Just curious -- clearly having something
> bigger than the default is good.)

It's one track on a 1.44M floppy.

Paul.




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