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RE: how to create floppy image for ecos ?


David N. Welton wrote:
> 
> One thing that I've written which is at times helpful is a little
> application in Tcl in order to verify that your floppy image has
> indeed been trasferred correctly to the disk.  It's kind of slow,
> because it both reads and writes the image, but with the quantity of
> bad disks out there, it can save you from scratching your head when
> something  doesn't quite work.
> 
> It's available here:
> 
> http://dedasys.com/freesoftware/
>
> Look under 'scivoli':
>
> wget http://www.dedasys.com/freesoftware/files/md5check.tcl.gz
> gunzip md5check.tcl.gz
> ./md5check.tcl image.bin /dev/fd0
>
> You have to have the right permissions, of course.

Yet another way to do this:

  cmp image.bin /dev/fd0

or

  diff image.bin /dev/fd0

Tony Richardson

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