writing an image to a 3.5 with linux
 

one of my friends told me about an os he found called menuetos. the os loads itself into ram from a floppy and doesn't change the physical hard drive at all!! it contains a compiler, a gui, all sorts of cool stuff, but i can't figure out how to write an image to the floppy with linux. i'm running mandrake 9.2, using a 1.44 mb floppy disk, but i'm not sure what kind of disk drive i have. all i need is the basic commands to write the image from root, i really want to try this out.

Likely you'll have to use dd. I don't know the exact command, but I imagine it'd be something like:

dd if=/path/and/location/of/your/floppy/disk/image of=/dev/floppy

The if is the infile.. the of is the outfile (or disk).

thank you, latch. i ended up using dd if=/home/marduk/Desktop/menuetos.img of=/mnt/floppy/img (img being what i named the image to allow the write process...before that it kept telling me it couldn't make an image out of a directory when i just used /mnt/floppy). i really appreciate your help, and if anybody wants to check it out, menuetos is basically a customizable portable os for any level programmer, i'm a noob and i've got it doing what i want. thanks again!!