dd anyone?

[Mark Jarvis]

The copy of SBM that I use is 108K, so I use:

	dd if=sbm_file of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=216

Works in Phoenix!

BTW, burning an iso to a CD is not the same as burning a standard CD. 
For a good discussion, see chapter 11 of O'Reilly's "A Linux Cookbook" 
by Carla Schroder--one of the best investments I ever made.

-mj-

Darrin Chandler wrote:
> See Alan's message, and if that doesn't work for some reason you might 
> try it with parameter "bs=512" instead of "bs=1440k"
> 
> Robert N. Eaton wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Trying to install Kubuntu (because I get along better with KDE than 
>> Gnome), I have run into a frustrating problem. I downloaded and burned 
>> the .iso file, but the cdrom would not boot.  I checked the BIOS to 
>> make sure that it could boot from a cdrom (seemingly no problem.)
>>
>> In the information in the .iso file the Smart Boot Manager was 
>> described as a way out of this dilemma.  I quote: "Then, instead of 
>> booting on the CD directly, you can create a Smart Boot Manager floppy 
>> image by using the sbm.bin disk image.  You can create this floppy 
>> with rawrite (under DOS) or with dd (under Linux)." This seemed like a 
>> good idea, so I tried, and tried, and tried.
>>
>> I've read man dd over and over, for all the good it's done me (Man, 
>> this does not compute.)(Sorry, couldn't resist.) The problem stems 
>> from the fact that sbm.bin is 1474560 bytes, a litle much for a 1.44 
>> meg floppy--thus dd.
>>
>> I really don't understand how to use dd in this (or any other) case.
>>
>> Help.
>>
>> Bob Eaton
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