Floppying an ISO?

nodata lsof at nodata.co.uk
Sat May 19 08:04:27 UTC 2007


Am Freitag, den 18.05.2007, 11:10 +0300 schrieb Amichai Rotman:
> 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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Try it:
 dd if=iso-file of=/dev/floppy





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