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For a normal CDROM or network installation, all you need to copy onto
an actual floppy from this directory is the boot.flp image (for 1.44MB
floppies).
IMPORTANT NOTE: These images are NOT DOS files! You cannot simply
copy them to a DOS floppy as regular files, you need to *image* copy
them to the floppy with fdimage.exe under DOS or `dd' under UNIX. You
also must be sure to transfer them in BINARY mode when using FTP since
ASCII mode will destroy the contents, as will certain web browsers.
If the length of the floppy image is not exactly 1474560 bytes in your
copy then it has been corrupted in transit and must be re-fetched.
CREATING A FLOPPY FROM AN IMAGE FILE:
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To create the boot floppy image from DOS, you'd do something like
this:
C> fdimage boot.flp a:
Assuming that you'd copied fdimage.exe and boot.flp into a directory
somewhere. If you were doing this from the base of a CD distribution,
then the *exact* command would be:
E> tools\fdimage floppies\boot.flp a:
If you're creating the boot floppy from a UNIX machine, you may find
that:
dd if=floppies/boot.flp of=/dev/rfd0
or
dd if=floppies/boot.flp of=/dev/floppy
work well, depending on your hardware and operating system environment
(different versions of UNIX have totally different names for the
floppy drive - neat, huh? :-).
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