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

[Bevan Broun]

on Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 10:37:31PM +0800, David Buddrige <buddrige at q-net.net.au> wrote:
> Thanks heaps Greg... you're a legend... 8-)

There is a Bootdisk-HOWTO which contains lots of other info.


> 
> 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
> 

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