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Creating Bootable Diagnostic Diskettes

To create a bootable diagnostic diskette:

  1. Download the appropriate Disk Image to your hard drive.  Note the file name, as you will need that later.  The file names have one of these formats: 150xxxxY.i or 180xxxxY.i, where: xxxx are numbers and Y is an alpha-character.
  2. WINDOWS and DOS USERS: Download the Rawrite utility. For more information about Rawrite, you can refer to rawrite3.doc, which contains similar information as this file.
  3. Insert a formatted 1.44MB diskette.
  4. Follow the appropriate instructions for your operating system (found below) to complete the procedure:

Windows Environment

  1. Double-click on the Rawrite.exe utility you downloaded.
  2. Enter the disk image source file name.
  3. Enter the target diskette drive, for example; a.
  4. Insert the formatted diskette into the target drive and press the ENTER key.
  5. Rawrite may be aborted at any time by typing ^C or CTRL-Break.

DOS Environment

  1. At the DOS prompt, execute the RaWrite utility that you downloaded to your hard drive. For example: C:\TEMP\RaWrite
  2. Enter the disk image file name.
  3. Enter the target diskette drive, for example; a.
  4. Insert the formatted diskette into the target drive and press the ENTER key.
  5. Rawrite may be aborted at any time by typing ^C or CTRL-Break.

UNIX Environments

  1. Use the dd command to copy the diskette image file out to a floppy drive. For example:

    dd if=<current path>/<150xxxxY> of=/dev/rfd0135ds18 (primary 3.5" drive)

    dd if=<current path>/<150xxxxY> of=/dev/rfd1135ds18 (secondary 3.5" drive)

  2. For more information about dd, refer to your operating system’s manpages.

 
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