Floppying an ISO?

[Amichai Rotman]

You are quite right!

How stupid of me! :-)

Let's re-phrase the question:

I want to copy 2.7 MB from an ISO to a USB stick - the trick - to make it
bootable...

I'd like to use it as a startup disk and it has to set with a bootable flag.
Mounting the ISO and copying the files i easy enough, but how do I make sure
the computer boots from it?

Thanks!

Amichai

On 5/18/07, Gérard BIGOT <gerard.bigot at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 5/18/07, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a Seagate HD I'd like to check using the SeaTools from Seagate's
> > site.
> >
> > I downloaded a Linux version CLI and an ISO to run from a startup disk.
> >
> > The ISO is 2.7MB in size and I don't want to use a 700 MB CD-R...
> >
> > Is it possible  (using dd, maybe?) to "dump" it on a regular 1.44 MB
> > floppy?
> >
> > How?
> >
> > Hi,
>
> so as I understand you want to put 2.1 MB of data on a 1.44 MB floppy. I
> don't think it will fly...
>
> In general, when you want to extract files from an ISO, you have to first
> mount it somewhere in your file system (with mount -o loop ...).
>
> That way, you have access to the files in the ISO. You can cp, (using mcp
> from the mtools, in the case of a floppy?) them where you want.
>
> See the man pages for details.
>
> G.
>
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