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Scorcher2005:
is the raw write that comes withh ALL boot disks used to unzip the zipped files and move them to floppy or just to unzip them or just to move them to floppy.  plz explain how i do this, i am a bit(a lot) of a newb to boot disks.

voidmain:
rawrite does not unzip a floppy image. If the image is zipped or compressed in any other way it will first need to be unzipped. The file that you will rawrite to disk should be exactly the same size as a floppy disk (1.44MB).  This is because a floppy image is a straight sector by sector image of a floppy disk. rawrite just copies those sectors back to disk from the image file. rawrite does the same thing as "dd if=floppy.img of=/dev/fd0" under UNIX.

jtpenrod:
Rawrite is used to prepare file images and write them to a diskette in a form that can be moved directly into memory with no intervening soft to intrepret the data. Just select the image you need from either the CD or download it off the 'Net. The program is necessary only if you have just Winders. If you also have Linux, then just use dd to prepare your bootable diskettes.

Of course, this assumes that you have a system that can't boot up directly from the CD itself. The vast majority of newer systems can boot directly from a CD, whereas some older systems couldn't. (I had a Dell OptiPlex GSa, circa 1996, that couldn't boot from CDs, thus I had to use rawrite to prepare bootable diskettes to do a Mandrake install) Newer systems probably won't require it at all.
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Scorcher2005:
so rawwrite just moves the unzipped file to floppy?  thats what i thought at 1st.  it asks for file name so i put it in and it said no such file or directory.  i have tried it with just the file name and the whole directory path and neither work, it just says no such file or directory.  what do i do?

voidmain:
If I remember right rawrite is a little flaky.  Probably the sure fire way of making it work is to create a directory on your C: drive, then copy your disk images and rawrite.exe into that directory. Change into that directory and type "rawrite". It should ask you for the drive letter of your floppy where you just put in "A" or "B" depending on what drive letter your floppy is.  Then type in the full filename of the image you want to write "boot.bin" for instance, followed by <ENTER>.

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