Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 13:55:24 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: If dd doesn't support /dev/zero, what _does_ it support? In-Reply-To: <3a3ebee0$0$30013$6d6c75b@news.execpc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Chris Giese wrote: > >OK, I try to use the DJGPP port of GNU dd to create an 8 KB file > > Where does one get the DJGPP port of GNU dd? It's part of the Fileutils package. > That'd be just the ticket for installing a bootloader. Not necessarily: the ported dd cannot access unformatted floppies. But this should be easy to add.