[PLUG] Making installation floppies

[Carla Schroder]

On Sunday 09 March 2003 8:29 pm, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Rich Shepard wrote:

>
>   Thanks to Rob and Ed I learned a lesson: the file copied to the disk with
> 'dd' is not mountable. 

But but but the Slackware site says to do this:

http://slackware.com/install/bootdisk.php
"Once you have selected a boot disk image file from the list below, you will 
need to create the disk. If you are creating the image from a Linux system, 
the following command should work just fine:

dd if=[image file name] of=/dev/fd0"



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