> Jonathan Sprague dixit: > > > > > > dd if=FILE.EXT of=/dev/fd0 (for floppy a:) > > say I want to make an image of Slackware's boot & root disks from my cdrom > to the floppy, would it be as follows?: > > mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /cdrom Yes, assuming you have an IDE cdrom as a slave on the first controller > mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /floppy No, don't mount the floppy drive. Doing this will cause the next commands to fail because the floppy is mounted. > > dd if =/dev/hdb/bare.i of=/dev/fd0 Almost, but you can't use /dev/hdb. Use /cdrom where you mounted it, i.e. dd if=/cdrom/bare.i > > dd if=/dev/hdb/color.gz of=/dev/fd0 Again, use cdrom instead of dev/hdb dd if=/cdrom/color.gz of=/dev/fd0
This is assuming that "bare.i" and "color.gz" are disk image files. I guess from the name that the color.gz thing is a gzipped file, you will probably want to gunzip it first. Helge Hafting
