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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Subject: Re: another person with dist.fs booting problems Message-ID: <1993Mar3.235938.19499@coe.montana.edu> Sender: usenet@coe.montana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman Mt 59717 References: <1993Mar2.034835.1497@beaver.cs.washington.edu> <C3C1JJ.7yB@kla.com> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 23:59:38 GMT Lines: 23 In article <C3C1JJ.7yB@kla.com> brandari@anl433.uucp (Paul Brandariz x6546) writes: >: I copied the files into floppy from a unix machine using "dd": >: >: dd if=dist.fs.pk-0.2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=16 > >You need to use the rawrite.exe program to copy the dist.fs file to the >boot diskette not dd. Download dist.fs to a PC and rawrite.exe (see the tools >directory) then use rawrite. Rawrite is a DOS version of the unix dd program. dd is *just* as valid as using rawrite, and is probably a heck of alot faster if you use big block sizes. No offense intended, just didn't want any mis-information spread. Nate -- osynw@terra.oscs.montana.edu | Still trying to find a good reason for nate@cs.montana.edu | these 'computer' things. Personally, work #: (406) 994-4836 | I don't think they'll catch on - home #: (406) 586-0579 | Don Hammerstrom