[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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
> mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /floppy
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You should not mount the floppy if you are going to write to the floppy
device (/dev/fd0) directly. Besides, these floppy images do not contain
ext2 file systems.
> dd if =/dev/hdb/bare.i of=/dev/fd0
>
> dd if=/dev/hdb/color.gz of=/dev/fd0
You have mounted the CDROM on /cdrom, so these commands should read
dd if=/cdrom/bare.i of=/dev/fd0
dd if=/cdrom/color.gz of=/dev/fd0
Alternatively, you could use cp to do this:
cp /cdrom/bare.i /dev/fd0
...
> BTW, I believe obs=18k deals with disk space/capacity somehow.
This shouldn't matter as long as the floppies are low-level formatted in
advance (use superformat if they aren't).
HTH.
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