Re: Small patch to fix an "experimental" onlook

Ulrich Windl (Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de)
Thu, 9 May 1996 09:48:24 +0200


On 7 May 96 at 12:35, Martin Konold wrote:

> On Sat, 4 May 1996 jerijian@seas.ucla.edu wrote:
>
> > BTW, doesn anyone know if I can cat a kernel image (Linux
> > 1.3.98) to a 3.5" double-density (720k) floppy yet, or must I be
> > forced to use LILO?
>
> Just give it a try!
> I regularilly use dd if=/zImage of=/dev/fd0 bs=10k

With 9 sectors per track, each 512 bytes, your block size does not
make much sense. Why don't you use bs=9k for doubled sided floppies?

> It works flawlessly.

Thanks to readahead and the track buffer!

Ulrich