Floppying an ISO?

[Mike McMullin]

On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 16:51 +0300, Amichai Rotman wrote:
> The ISO I have has FreeDOS in it...
> 
> How do I do it?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Amichai.
> 
> On 5/18/07, Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln at mnsi.net> wrote:
>         On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 11:10 +0300, Amichai Rotman 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?
>         >
>         > Thanks!
>         
>           Have you considered using a Free-DOS .iso to create a
>         bootable disk
>         and then run your tools that way?
>         

  For the floppy it should be a nice simple dd if=image.file.iso
of=/dev/fd& where & is the device name of the floppy drive.  I am not
sure about the merits of trying to overlay the image file on an USB disk
as it does not match size for size.  There might be more useful info on
creating a bootable USB-Drive in the list archives, failing that Google
ought to have the information.

  Mike