Floppy Copy?

steve anderson andersons001 at hawaii.rr.com
Sun Apr 15 12:24:59 PDT 2001


The floppy.img file sounds like a boot image. It is not related to
copying an individual file to floppy.

This may have been in someone's previous email, but ...

The dd command in a Linux/UNIX OS is used to do direct dumps from one
device (or file) to another. It is an excellent tool to create a disk
image or to make a disk from an image. cd to the directory where the
.img file resides. In Linux, the command is invoked as follows: (For
copying the .img file to floppy.)

dd if=filename.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k 

The command info dd displays some good info about dd. You enter q to
quit the info program. You enter info info for help on the info program.

>info dd <ENTER>

>info info <ENTER>

Steve A.



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