On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:02:00 +0100, David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 01:49:24PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > 
> > I recommend running http://www.memtest.org/ rather than the version in
> > pkgsrc.  (Someone, probably me, should package this one, too...)
> 
> You'll probably need to pad the file to a multiple of 512 bytes before
> trying to copy (dd) if to a floppy - otherwise the last sector won't be
> written.
> 
I've always used the .iso -- I don't even have floppy drives on several
of my machines. 


		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb