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 <div>On 5/18/07, Gérard BIGOT <<a href="mailto:gerard.bigot@gmail.com">gerard.bigot@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div>On 5/18/07, Amichai Rotman <<a href="mailto:amichai@iglu.org.il" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> amichai@iglu.org.il</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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? </blockquote></div>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. -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- .:====================================================:. Amichai Rotman UIN#: 6401746 Registered Linux User#: 201192 [<a href="http://counter.li.org/">http://counter.li.org/ </a>] Registered Ubuntu User #12851 [<a href="http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net">http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net</a>] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PLEASE READ: <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ .:====================================================:.