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From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux
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References: <318FA7CB.8D8@hkstar.com> <4nrk6d$14h@Mercury.mcs.com> <31A2A83D.67A89A35@lambert.org> <31A33D9D.17035FB@nd1.tahsing.com.tw>
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 19:41:01 GMT
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In article <31A33D9D.17035FB@nd1.tahsing.com.tw>,
Caldera Desktop User  <ytlin@nd1.tahsing.com.tw> wrote:
>Terry Lambert wrote:
>
>> 
>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2-960501-SNAP/floppies/boot.flp
>> 
>
>Does anyone knows how to create a floppy out of this boot.flp file?
>I have Linux running here.


No problem, use:

dd if=boot.flp of=/dev/'whatever your raw floppy is'

And there it will be!!!