[Novalug] How the blazes do I write to a floppy?

[DonJr]

On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 16:12 -0800, Beartooth wrote:
>  	That ancient laptop, now dbanned to a fare-thee-well, 
> won't let me get to the BIOS to tell it to boot from a CD any 
> more.
> 
>  	I *have* a boot floppy for grub which may let me do it -- 
> but it's a .img file on my hard drive.
> 
>  	I also have an external USB floppy drive.
> 
>  	So how do I write the one to the other??
> 
>  	Crimenently,

The command is called {long pause}:  dd

To send an image to a floppy the command is something like:
   dd if=/path/image of=/dev/fd0

See the manpage for complete details before you attempt it.

  The following command would effectily ERASE your hard drive:
       dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hda
  so be very very careful.
 
{To others, yes I know it would only write over the partition table,
 but that would be enough in most cases.}