Re: [Bug-grub] Followup-while making grub floppy `Permission denied

[Robert Siemer]

From: Jason Thomas <address@hidden>
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:10:43AM +0200, Robert Siemer wrote:
> > From: Jason Thomas <address@hidden>
> > 
> > > the capacity of the floppy should not come into it as its such a small
> > > amount, it doesn't need to be formatted.
> > 
> > But it needs to be low-level formatted, otherwise format auto
> > detection code will fail...  (-:
> 
> can you explain that to me?  when you dd the image onto the floppy it
> overwrites whatever is on the floppy in that location.  dd is not
> format, You can take an image of a floppy using dd and write it to
> another floppy and they will be identical
> 
> or am I lost!

You aren't lost. Maybe I'm just meticulous here...

It's easy to explain with an example. You can dd an 1760kB floppy
image to a 'high' low-level formatted floppy. But you can't do so with
a 'normal' (low-level formatted) floppy.

Both floppies represent the same hardware...
fdformat(8) is the program to change the format.


Regards,
                Robert