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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [pcemu] anyone got it working?
Date: 11 Jan 1995 07:22:31 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <JUN.95Jan11130911@fox.fax.iwa.fujixerox.co.jp>,
Junichi Kurokawa <jun@fox.fax.iwa.fujixerox.co.jp> wrote:
>    > Shove it in your Unix box and type cp /dev/fd0 DriveA This should
>    > create a 720k (or whatever) file which the emulator can boot from.
>
>What the hell is `cp /dev/fd0 foo' supposed to mean, anyway?  /dev/fd0
>is a device file, that you don't cat, less or edit.

Ok, so maybe this will be easier:

		dd if=/dev/fd0 of=foo

Do this with a bootable DOS disk.  It works surprisingly well!

						Jordan