[plug] How do you create an (install) boot disk from a .img file from within Linux?

[David Buddrige]

Thanks heaps Greg... you're a legend... 8-)

Dave...

Greg Mildenhall wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, David Buddrige wrote:
> > I need to create a Linux Install Boot disk, however I don't actually
> > have any machines running Windows 95 or DOS at all!  I know that to do
> > this I would normally run the RAWRITE program, however with only a linux
> > system to work with to start-with, this is a bit of a problem... can
> > someone help me out here?
>
> Use dd.
> Perhaps:
> dd if=<inputfile> of=/dev/fd0 obs=512 conv=sync;sync
> or just dd if=<infile> of=/dev/fd0
> HTH,
>
> -Greg Mildenhall