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[ILUG] Making An Image Of A Floppy Disk

[ILUG] Making An Image Of A Floppy Disk

Thomas B. Quillinan t.quillinan at cs.ucc.ie
Thu Nov 30 18:01:51 GMT 2000


On Thursday 30 November 2000 17:56, kosullivan_xlib Last Name wrote:
> How do I make an image of a FAT16 floppy disk? And how do I get the image
> onto another floppy disk?
>
> Reason for Asking.
> I need to backup a floppy disk, which holds a key for a speech package
> called Jaws.  Copying it normally will not work but making an image of it
> using some Linux tool should work.
>
>
to create image:

dd if=/dev/fd0 of=imagefile.img

to put it onto a new floppy:

dd if=imagefile.img of=/dev/fd0

>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==--
> Before you buy.

-- 
regards,

Thomas B. Quillinan
Centre for Unified Computing (http://www.cuc.ucc.ie)
finger tom at skynet.csn.ul.ie for my PGP Key




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