Nick Holland wrote: >Another answer to your question might be to change those zeros to ones. >One way to do that: > ># tr "\0" "\377" </dev/zero |dd of=ones.file bs=1k count=1
Who needs /dev/one (or /dev/zero or /dev/whatever) when you have /dev/random? $ tr -cd "\377" < /dev/random So I suggest that /dev/zero be removed, it's obviously redundant. Getting rid of all those zeroes will also save a lot of space on the installation floppy. Philippe
