Upgrading to SuSE 8.0

der.hans plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Fri, 17 May 2002 16:36:18 -0700 (MST)


Am 17. May, 2002 schwätzte Matt so:

> I read the readme on the disk, but I was a little confused...I just have
> to execute rawrite.exe and the disks are good for usage? Or does the
> rawrite just format it?

rawrite does a raw write of data do the floppy. It's similar to burning a CD
for floppies.

If you already have a Linux box on the air, then you can do all this from
there.

dd if=image.bin of=/dev/fd0

if is in-file and of is out-file. image.bin is whatever image you want to
write to the floppy.

ciao,

der.hans
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