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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