On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 09:26:36AM +0800, John Summerfied wrote: > I agree with Steff here. /dev/hda is (like everything else in *x) a > file, and cp copies files just find. > Where instructions say to use dd to create a floppy, I mostly use cp. dd has the advantage of letting you specify block size, and so is often somewhat faster. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 73 degrees Fahrenheit.