Re: bootnet.img and dd

[Philip Rowlands <phr doc ic ac uk>]

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Drew Shuller, Net-Sieve, INC wrote:

>Having a problem with my bootnet.img floppy. Whenever I do a dd
>if=bootnet.img of=/dev/floppy command, I fill the disk with a binary image,
>then I can't add the kickstart file.

Can't add it why? What's the error?

>I watched my sysadmin do a dd a couple
>of days ago, he used an additional command (blocks, bs, something), and it
>made a disk with Boot.msg, general.msg, syslinux.cfg, ect on it, and I was
>able to add the ks.cfg file to the floppy.

$ dd < bootnet.img > /dev/fd0
$ mcopy ks.cfg a:
should work.


Cheers,

Phil