[j-nsp] Creating an M7i boot PCMCIA card

Scott Morris swm at emanon.com
Sat Mar 31 19:53:09 EST 2007


Yup, that's the point of "direct disk" which, if I'm not mistaken, is what
"dd" stands for.

Sector-level copying, so you don't have to worry about exciting things like
partition tables and fun stuff like that.

Scott
 

-----Original Message-----
From: juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Daniel Roesen
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 5:13 PM
To: juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [j-nsp] Creating an M7i boot PCMCIA card

On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 11:39:34AM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
> It clears the boot sector and DOS partition map so that the Unix map 
> will be found and processed correctly.

But that's done by dd'ing the image to the flash anyway?!


Best regards,
Daniel

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