Re: MILO and linload.exe

[Michal Jaegermann <michal ellpspace math ualberta ca>]

Bruce Embrey wrote:
> 
> During your installation you should have created a DOS partition
> about 2MB in size.  The command to place your milo disk into this partition
> is : dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/sda1 bs=1440k .

This works but instantly wastes, "for free", all that hard disk which
is beyond floppy image boundaries (you cloned also media description,
directory tables, etc.).  'cp' from a mounted floppy, or 'mcopy' from
non-mounted FAT/VFAT floppy, is equally effective and gives you
all this "extra disk space"; this will be some 600k, or more than
you need for a "spare" boot image in the case above.

  --mj