Image a diskette?

Bob Hartung rwhart at mchsi.com
Thu Oct 14 09:46:20 UTC 2004


Francis Stevens wrote:
> Bob Hartung wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>   How do I go about creating an image of a floppy diskette that I can 
>> use to clone the diskette and use as storage for archival purposes?  
>> All I need is the command and then I'll read the relevant parts.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bob
>>
> 
> I use:-
> 
>     dd if=/dev/fd0 of=./copyofafloppydisk
> 
> to create a file which is a copy of the floppy disk and
> 
>     dd if=./copyofafloppydisk of=/dev/fd0
> 
> to create the new floppy.
> 
> You don't need to mount the floppy to do this.
> 
> FAS
> 
Thanks,
   Now I can clone this floppy that I use with Ghost to back up 
all my Linux installs to an external DVD.

Bob




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