On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, you wrote:
On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Darren R. Weber wrote:
I am just curious about floppy formatting. I like the KFloppy interface but have found it somewhat unreliable.
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<madness> 1. Go to a windows box, hard-format a floppy. 2. Take the floppy to a Linux/Unix box, and `dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/etc/floppy.img' 3. `gzip /etc/floppy.img' 4. Make a shell script that unzips and dd's from /etc/floppy.img.gz every time you need to format a floppy :) </madness>
On alternatives to dd: use `cat'. It does the same thing, but makes it's own buffers. This is in reference to LenZ' recommendation to use `cp'.
-- -=|JP|=- Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions -o)
Just a quick follow-up. I wrote a quick script copied an image and even saved it with the label "SuSE Floppy" :-) I did compress it with gzip and set the script to uncompress a copy in the tmp dir when it's running then remove it when done. Tested it back and forth between a few computers with a few files and it seems to work great. Thanks again for the help. Now to add a switch to the script for ex2fs. . .hmmm. :-) -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Darren R. Weber drw@linuxfan.com ICQ# 2849193 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/