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Unix on a floppy!! I am very confused!!!!!

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Nobber:
Spank me roundly (if you must) for encouraging the use of Windows software, but WinImage contains a tool that allows you to format floppies to non-standard sizes, some greater than the standard 1.44MB.

Calum:
thanks for that! i actually found a similar linux program on download.com (not sure what it's called) that does up to 1.88Mb raw space, but i'm also a bit confused as to how i get PicoBSD from the form of a .bin file to be a bootable floppy, also i'd like to add it to the hard drive and boot it from there, but i am clueless as to how.

Now my linux side is in a caffuffle for the next week or so, this BSD thing is on the back burner, but ta for adding that anyway, i might get that program just the same. you never know when these things might come in handy!

voidmain:
How big is the *.bin file? I'll bet it's around 1.44MB no?  It's probably a disk image in which case:

dd bs=8192 if=floppyimage.bin of=/dev/fd0

"dd" is a very powerful utility useful for many many things but very commonly used to create floppy images and write them back to disk. Floppy images are just sector for sector copy of data from a floppy to a file, same with *.ISO CD images. You can use "dd" to create an ISO image by:

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=mycd.iso

And if the floppy was bootable when the image was created, it will be bootable when you use "dd" to recreate the floppy. Do a "man dd" for more info.

Calum:
oh! thank you for that! i'll do that in a couple of days, after i install mandrake 8. my linux side is all to buggery right now, so i'm waiting till wednesday when mandrake arrives, i'll still have to deal with my cruddy SiS630 video card though  :(  , but i digress, ta for the info...

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