[H-GEN] Creating disk image

[Craig Eldershaw]

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>If linux sees the devices in /dev as files then,
>
>dd if=/cdrom/image.bin of=/dev/hda
>should work, right ?

Certainly.

>Or would it be better to bypass ISO-9660 altogether like this

Can't see the benefit..perhaps a slight speed improvement (since it's not
going via the filesystem section of the kernel), but that'd be minimal.

>I've noticed that Debian uses this method to create it's installation
>disks but passes a block size to dd.
>Do I need to specify a blocksize ? 

No.  It may give speed improvements to do so, but you can safely ommit
it.  Note that if you do use it, then you should be consistant about
using it in both reading and writing.

C.

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