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

[Clif Flynt]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 11:06:25AM -0800, Beartooth wrote:
> ...
> 	I've made a couple discoveries. One is that the boot 
> floppies for DamnSmallLinux (with and without grub) are both 1.47 
> -- yes 7 -- MB, and won't go on a floppy. Aaarrgghhh.

  A lot of floppy media and drives that are officially 80 track will
actually work at 82 or 84 tracks.  You can also get more data onto a
floppy disk with variations in the standard floppy formatting (for
instance, one sector, instead of 8 (or was it 16) per track).  This
gets rid of the losses for inter-sector gaps.

  I think I got the 1.47 boots onto my floppies by su-ing to root
and 

dd if=some.file.img of=/dev/fd0

  Clif

-- 
.... Clif Flynt ... http://www.cflynt.com ... clif at cflynt.com ...
.. Tcl/Tk: A Developer's Guide (2nd edition) - Morgan Kauffman ..
.. 15'th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference:  Oct 2008,  Philadelphia, PA.. 
.............  http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2008/  ............