Talk:Linux.BSD.UNIX Open Learning and Hacking
"the "erased state" for flash is when it is filled with all 1's."
tr '\000' '\377' < /dev/zero | dd bs=16384 of=/dev/rsd0c
from http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20100404103735
RE: issue of booting USB w/o BIOS support, please see http://mirror.slitaz.org/floppies/ You'd need an HD floppy disk for this.
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Floppy image set
This floppy set will boot a Slitaz stable version. You can write floppies with SliTaz bootfloppybox, Windows rawrite or simply dd:
- dd if=fd001.img of=/dev/fd0
If you have a CD-ROM, an USB port and an USB key or a network card, but you can't boot these devices directly, then try floppy-grub4dos [1] first. This 1.44Mb floppy provides tiny programs to boot these devices without BIOS support and some other tools.
Dan and Raju,
You CAN mess with this!!!
So can Ramone P.