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[ILUG] Copying floppies to CD

[ILUG] Copying floppies to CD

Brendan Arthurs ilug at relodublin.com
Thu Sep 9 14:50:27 IST 2004


On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 02:15:35PM +0100, Glen Gray wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 13:56, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > 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.

If the floppies contain lots of small files it could be faster to dd
the floppies to a temporary directory and then mount the images as
loopback before copying the contents to wherever they will eventually
go. 

Brendan



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