Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

[Ethan Rosenberg, PhD]

Ethan Rosenberg, PhD Pres/CEO Hygeia Biomedical Research, Inc 2 Cameo Ridge Road Monsey, NY 10952 T: 845 352-3908 F: 845 352-7566 erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com On 03/21/2013 07:19 AM, Brian wrote: I don't really know where you are coming from and what you want to achieve because I tend to delete list mails in HTML only on sight. Nothing personal, you understand - just pure laziness on my part :) However, believe it or not, you are nearly there! On Thu 21 Mar 2013 at 00:20:39 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: <br> I'm doing something wrong and can&#8217;t figure it out.<br> <br> <br> Downloaded and unzipped -<br> rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -lh<br> total 32M<br> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root&nbsp; 31M Mar 21 00:02 FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img<br> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 115K Mar 21 00:02 Agreed. FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2<br> <br> Attempt dd -<br> rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# dd if=FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img of=/media/usbstick/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img<br> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^ ^ This is your error. The image should be written to the device, which is /dev/sdf in your case. dd if=FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img of=/dev/sdf Or cat if=FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img > /dev/sdf I usually check the image is an isohybrid one which can be written to a USB stick with dd or cat. brian@desktop:~$ /sbin/fdisk -l FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img Disk FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img: 32 MB, 32505856 bytes 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 31 cylinders, total 63488 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00077d8f Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img1 * 32 63487 31728 e W95 FAT16 (LBA That's ok. The image contains a filesystem. Brian - Thanks. Here is what I tried. rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -la /dev/sdf brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 80 Mar 21 01:15 /dev/sdf rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# dd if=/home/ethan/DOSutil/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img of=/dev/sdf 63488+0 records in 63488+0 records out 32505856 bytes (33 MB) copied, 10.2578 s, 3.2 MB/s rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls /dev/sdf /dev/sdf rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -la /dev/sdf brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 80 Mar 21 01:16 /dev/sdf I am still TOTALLY CONFUSED. Ethan PS Again, my apologies for the HTML posts. It was not intentional. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/514b107d.5000...@hygeiabiomedical.com