Floppying an ISO?

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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!
>
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> Amichai Rotman
>
Probably not, unless you reformat the floppy with either a 2mb partition 
(which would require a 2mb compatible floppy drive), or compress the 
floppy (which you would probably have to mount the compressed partition 
before booting it some how)

If i were you, id either just burn the cd or extract the iso to a 
thumbdrive and boot from the thumbdrive. (note if your extracting an iso 
to a thumbdrive: you cant just copy and paste, you have to run a process 
similar to burning a cd. Basically all you do is just use the programs 
extract option or have linux extract it and it should write the boot 
files to the boot sectors.)

please correct me if im wrong
--cj


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