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hoojchoons:
Weird!   :rolleyes:

Master of Reality:
I created the one for RH7.2 and the MD8.1 during installation. My debian and slackware disks work. Maybe i had three bad disks? I think i created the win editor one using: "dd if=image of=/dev/fd0" (or is it 'of=image if=/dev/fd0') I knew what i was doing at the time because the website told me how to do it.

Master of Reality:
the file i downloaded only unzipped the binary for the floppy and didnt have "chntpw".

voidmain:
You did the "dd" command correctly, although I usually do a "dd bs=8192 if=floppy.img of=/dev/fd0" out of habit.  The chntpw is *in* the floppy image file. No need to dd it to disk if you just want to get the chntpw file out of it. All you have to do is mount the image file like so:

# mount floppy.img /mnt/floppy -o loop

then change directory into the "/mnt/floppy directory and you should find it in one of the subdirectories.  When you get what you want, unmount the floppy image by:

# umount /mnt/floppy

Note, change "floppy.img" in the above command to whatever the image file name is that you want to mount, and if you are not in the same directory as that image when you run the command you will have to use the full path to the image file name.

[ May 16, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

Master of Reality:
i made another win editor disk using "bs=1024" and it works fine, i did this on a different computer too though.

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