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Re: tar under NT unable to make raw floppies


I had rawrite3 working in win95 (and I think nt, but I'm not sure)
its on the red-hat for alpha distribution on the infomagic linux resource
cd-set.

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> From: Carl D. Roth <roth@cse.ucsc.edu>
> To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: tar under NT unable to make raw floppies 
> Date: Wednesday, February 12, 1997 5:16 PM
> 
> ==> "ea" == Erik Andersen <andersen@cimetrix.com> writes:
> 
>     ea> I would guess that merging the "rawrite2" DOS program (GPLed,
>     ea> and often distributed with various Linux distributions for
>     ea> writing kernel image files directly to floppy) may do the
>     ea> trick here.
> 
> This raises an interesting point.  Has *anyone* out there gotten a
> version of rawrite to work under Win95 DOS shell or NT?  The last time
> I made a linux boot floppy, I had to use a Sun workstation to write
> the floppy image...
> 
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