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Boot memtest from Floppy

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by marck almada (py) 1 view

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Hi !, Please I want to know how can i put the memtest to a floppy drive...
It's very useful test DIMM's with this program on anothers pc's who don't have linux...
I saw something like this...
dd if= /sbin/memtest.bin /dev/floppy (but, it is correct ?!)
please...
Thanks !

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by t_bonee

Hi,

You need to specify an output file with the dd command. Like so:

dd if=/some/file of=/dev/fd0

--Tom

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