On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 01:21:42AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i downloaded the sarge files and the boot.img and the root.img. i read > the instructions on making the floppies, but i have hit a wall. on my > only other computer, i have a dual-booting XP and fedora. i cannot > figure out a way to get into DOS (f8 doesnt work), so i tried to copy > the floppies using fedora. > > dd if=file of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 conv=sync ; sync > > above is the instruction from the install manual; the floppy drive on > my fedora is /mnt/floppy, which i used instead of /dev/fd0...
Don't. Do use /dev/fd0. -- Note that I use Debian version 3.1 Linux emac140 2.6.9-1-686 #1 Thu Nov 25 03:48:29 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Never trust a message that appears to come from me but is not signed with GPG! It is most likely SPAM or a VIRUS sent by someone who has my adress and got infected. My public key, ID 7050614E, is available from the HKP key servers and here: http://sociologi.cjb.net/~hans/key.txt
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