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Writing the Floppy Disk Image Files to Floppy Disk

You will need the file root.bin . If your a: drive of the system upon which you will install Linux uses 1.2MB floppy disks, you will also need the files boot1200.bin, base12-1.bin, base12-2.bin, base12-3.bin, and base12-4.bin. If the a: drive of the system upon which you will install Linux uses 1.44MB floppy disks, you'll need the files boot1440.bin, base14-1.bin, base14-2.bin, and base14-3.bin. All of these are floppy disk image files, which means that each file contains the complete contents of a floppy disk in raw form. A special program is used to write the image files to floppy disk in raw mode.

Find 6 formatted floppy disks if you are using 1.4 megabyte floppies, or 7 if you are using 1.2 megabyte floppies. Mark these as "Installation Boot", "Installation Root", "Custom Boot", "Base 1", "Base 2", "Base 3", and if you are using 1.2 megabyte floppies: "Base 4".

Here is the filename-to-disk-label correspondence:

boot1440.bin or boot1200.bin: "Installation Boot"
root.bin: "Installation Root"
base14-1.bin or base12-1.bin: "Base 1"
and so on for "Base 2", "Base 3", and, if you are using 1.2 megabyte floppies: "Base 4".

No file is written to the Custom Boot floppy, that will be written by the Debian system while it is being installed.

Writing from a DOS, Windows, or OS-2 System

You'll find the rawrite2.exe program in the /debian/tools directory. There's also a rawrite2.txt file containing instructions for rawrite2.exe .

To write the floppy disk image files to the floppy disks, use the command

\trawrite2 file drive

where file is one of the floppy disk image files, and drive is either a: or b:.

Writing from a Linux or Unix System

Some workstations attempt to automaticaly mount a floppy disk when you place it in the drive. You might have to disable this feature before the workstation will allow you to write a floppy in raw mode. Unfortunately, I don't know the command necessary to do this for your particular workstation. Ask your system administrator.

To write the floppy disk image files to the floppy disks, use the command

\tdd if=file of=/dev/fd0 bs=10k ; sync

where file is one of the floppy disk image files. /dev/fd0 is a commonly used name of the floppy-disk device, it may be different on your workstation. The command may return to the prompt before Unix has finished writing the floppy disk, so look for the disk-in-use light on the floppy drive and be sure that the light is out and the disk has stopped revolving before you remove it from the drive. On some systems, you'll have to run a command to eject the floppy from the drive.

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Writing from a DOS, Windows, or OS-2 System

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