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
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.
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  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.