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[ILUG] Copying floppies to CD

[ILUG] Copying floppies to CD

Glen Gray glen at lincor.com
Thu Sep 9 14:15:35 IST 2004


On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 13:56, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> What is the best way to copy a lot of floppies (all in FAT format) to a CD?
> Would dd be sensible?
> 
IF you dd the floppies to your PC you'll end up with a floppy disk image
that you could mount as a loopback device. 

> I'd like the floppies to be accessible as folders on the CD.
> 
I'm guessing that you simply just mount the floppy, make a destdir that
identifies it, cp the files. Rinse and repeat and then create an iso of
the dirs.

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Glen Gray <glen at lincor.com>                             17 Dame Court
Senior Software Engineer                            Dublin 2, Ireland
Lincor Solutions Ltd.                          Ph: +353 (0) 1 6746413





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