Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3236 mails)

[eilert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Eilert Brinkmann)]

"Mark Annandale" <sipper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Anyway I looked in the Suse archives, found reference to the Athlon boot
> disk, downloaded the file ( 1 hour ten minutes @ 9600).
> 
> It's too big to fit on a stiffy ( 1,474, 560 bytes), and it doesn't have an
> extension. Is this right ??

Yes, it's right that the file has no extension. And the size (exactly
1440 * 1024 bytes) seems to be correct, too. This is not a file that
should be stored on a formatted disk as a file, it is an image of the
entire disk. In the directory with the image files you can find a
README describing what to do. With Linux you can insert an empty
floppy disk an simply do

  cat IMAGE_FILE >/dev/fd0

(which always worked for me) or

  dd if=IMAGE_FILE of=/dev/fd0u1440

(recommended in the README) to create a bootdisk. If you want to
create the bootdisk under DOS you should sue the program rawrite.exe
which you can find at

  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/6.3/dosutils/rawrite

Eilert

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