Subject: Re: dd comand for building install floppies
To: None <jeff_kreska@pts.mot.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/13/1995 23:44:19
Jeff Kreska writes:
> Any one know off the top of their head the dd comand I would use to generate
> the install disks from the .fs files.
> 
> 	I tryed "gzcat inst-10A.fs.gz | dd of=/dev/fd/0 bs=20" with no luck.

Why would you want to write the disk out to file descriptor zero?

> I know it used to mentioned in the README/INSTALL files but I can't find it.
> If it really matters I am trying to make the floppies from a SUN for the i386
> install.

If you are trying to do this on a Sun, obviously you have to know what
the name of the floppy drive device is on a Sun. I recall it being
/dev/rfd0X, where X was the partition ("a" is probably reasonable)
under 4.1.3 -- I have no idea what it might be on Solaris.

Perry