Note: The Question Dissection Series is designed to present a sample LPIC Exam question taken from various sources for study, providing the right and wrong answers with explanations designed to show you how questions should be read and understood. Additionally there are Notes that point to sites, resources and other tools to help you study properly for the concepts contained in the question.
Question: Making Boot Diskettes
From objective 103.3 Perform basic file management
You need to create a boot disk on a running Linux system. Which command is used to perform this function?
❍ A. rawrite.exe
❍ B. diskcopy
❍ C. makeboot.bat
❍ D. dd
Answer D is correct because the dd command can write disk images from the installation CD-ROM to a floppy.
Answers A, B, and C are incorrect because they run on a DOS/Windows system.
Notes: While making boot diskettes isn’t the most up to date topic, you will definitely find situations still today that require a boot floppy, either because the machine has weird hardware, no DVD drive, or all you need to do is boot and repair something quick.
Several resources can be helpful in learning more about this topic, the first of which would be Chapter 1 of the current version of my LPIC 1 Exam Cram 2 book (look for it in the sidebar ->), starting on Pg 13, the second would be the dd man pages ( man dd ).
Any comments, suggestions or questions are welcome.
RossB
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