Subject: /dev/fd0: Input/output error (making base disks)
Date: Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 07:53:11PM -0600
In reply to:Matt Garman
Quoting Matt Garman([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>|
>| Hello:
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>| I'm trying to make the "base" disks to do a potato install.
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>| When I do a "dd if=root.bin of=/dev/fd0," I get the following:
>|
>| dd: /dev/fd0: Input/output error
>| 1113+0 records in
>| 1112+0 records out
>|
Try this
dd if=./root.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 conv=sync ; sync
(this assumes you are in the dir containing root.bin, of course)
and if it doesn't work, reformat the floppy with
superformat /dev/fd0u1440
and the above dd line again
HTH
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