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If you have a CD-ROM, an USB port and an USB key or a network card, but you can't boot these devices directly, then try floppy-grub4dos [http://mirror.slitaz.org/boot/floppy-grub4dos] first. This 1.44Mb floppy provides tiny programs to boot these devices without BIOS support and some other tools.  
If you have a CD-ROM, an USB port and an USB key or a network card, but you can't boot these devices directly, then try floppy-grub4dos [http://mirror.slitaz.org/boot/floppy-grub4dos] first. This 1.44Mb floppy provides tiny programs to boot these devices without BIOS support and some other tools.  
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Dan and Raju,
You can mess with this!!!

Revision as of 20:39, 5 February 2013

"the "erased state" for flash is when it is filled with all 1's."

tr '\000' '\377' < /dev/zero | dd bs=16384 of=/dev/rsd0c

from http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20100404103735


RE: issue of booting USB w/o BIOS support, please see http://mirror.slitaz.org/floppies/ You'd need an HD floppy disk for this.


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Floppy image set

This floppy set will boot a Slitaz stable version. You can write floppies with SliTaz bootfloppybox, Windows rawrite or simply dd:

  1. dd if=fd001.img of=/dev/fd0

If you have a CD-ROM, an USB port and an USB key or a network card, but you can't boot these devices directly, then try floppy-grub4dos [1] first. This 1.44Mb floppy provides tiny programs to boot these devices without BIOS support and some other tools.



Dan and Raju, You can mess with this!!!