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RE: how to create floppy image for ecos ?
- From: "Richardson, Anthony" <ar63 at evansville dot edu>
- To: <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 07:54:58 -0600
- Subject: RE: [ECOS] 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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