[K12OSN] using dd to get 1474560 bytes

[David D. Nelson]

> I made an image of a boot floppy using 'dd
> if=/dev/fd0 of=floppy.img'
> and did not see any errors.  when I do a 'ls -l' it
> shows floppy.img to
> be 1474560 bytes.  But when I do a 'du -b' it shows
> floppy.img to be
> 1478656 bytes.  Now the mbcd script uses the 'du -b'
> method to verify
> the size of the image, and requires it to be 
> 1474560 or 2949120 bytes. 

I don't know if this is it or not but does the CD have
a different cluster size than the floppy?



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David D. Nelson
nelsda at yahoo.com


		
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