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Installing Windows XP with a SATA Hard Drive and No Floppy Drive

Friday, July 11, 2008

1 Introduction My laptop, a Gateway MX8711, is quite similar to most modern laptops in that it does not contain an obsolete floppy disk drive. If your computer was manufactured in the last few years, yours probably does not have one either. This is a good thing, as I cannot recall the last time I [...]

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Making a Floppy Disk Image in Linux

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

1 Introduction It took me a while of searching for this information, so I thought I would document this for both myself and anyone else interested. 2 The Process First, make an empty disk image: $ dd bs=512 count=2880 if=/dev/zero of=floppy.img $ mkfs.msdos floppy.img Next mount your image. Make sure that /mnt/floppy exists! # mount [...]

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