usb floppy, image files

2009-08-20 Thread Hugh Lawson
Hello Debian Users, I'm looking for a program like 'dd' that can copy image files to a USB floppy drive. I've done some googling without success. Hugh Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: usb floppy, image files

2009-08-20 Thread Teemu Likonen
On 2009-08-20 09:08 (-0400), Hugh Lawson wrote: I'm looking for a program like 'dd' that can copy image files to a USB floppy drive. Why doesn't dd work? Did you try? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: usb floppy, image files

2009-08-20 Thread go...@dobosevic.com
Hugh Lawson wrote: Hello Debian Users, I'm looking for a program like 'dd' that can copy image files to a USB floppy drive. I've done some googling without success. Hugh Lawson Hi, maybe unetbootin or live-helper? -- Bye, Goran Dobosevic Hrvatski: www.dobosevic.com English:

Re: usb floppy, image files

2009-08-20 Thread Hugh Lawson
Teemu Likonen tliko...@iki.fi writes: On 2009-08-20 09:08 (-0400), Hugh Lawson wrote: I'm looking for a program like 'dd' that can copy image files to a USB floppy drive. Why doesn't dd work? Did you try? Thanks Teemu, I tried once more, and it did work this time. Earlier, I must

Re: usb floppy, image files

2009-08-20 Thread Teemu Likonen
On 2009-08-20 14:56 (-0400), Hugh Lawson wrote: Teemu Likonen tliko...@iki.fi writes: On 2009-08-20 09:08 (-0400), Hugh Lawson wrote: I'm looking for a program like 'dd' that can copy image files to a USB floppy drive. Why doesn't dd work? Did you try? I tried once more, and it did work

Re: usb floppy, image files

2009-08-20 Thread Hugh Lawson
Teemu Likonen tliko...@iki.fi writes: OK. As you know dd is dangerous tool and usually it doesn't forgive typing mistakes. My method with device names is that I pretty much always use symlinks in /dev/disk/by-id or /dev/disk/by-label, never /dev/sda1 etc. Sound advice. Luckily, my error

Re: usb floppy, image files

2009-08-20 Thread Jack Schneider
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:08:26 -0400 Hugh Lawson hlaw...@triad.rr.com wrote: Hello Debian Users, I'm looking for a program like 'dd' that can copy image files to a USB floppy drive. I've done some googling without success. Hugh Lawson Did you you look @ clonezilla-live ??

Solved Re: usb floppy, image files

2009-08-20 Thread Hugh Lawson
Jack Schneider p...@dp-indexing.com writes: Hugh wrote: I'm looking for a program like 'dd' that can copy image files to a USB floppy drive. Jack wrote: Did you you look @ clonezilla-live ?? Hugh again: Thanks Jack, but as it turned out 'dd' did the job. My earlier efforts failed because