Re: How to copy floppy disks.

[rpjday]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Michael George wrote:

> On Apr 19, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
> > 
> > There may be something like DOS's diskcopy, but this will work too:
> > 
> > (insert source disk)
> > mount /dev/fd0
> > dd if=/dev/fd0 of=somefile bs=1440k
> > umount /dev/fd0
> > 
> > (insert destination disk)
> > mount /dev/fd0
> > dd if=somefile of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k
> 
> I don't think you have to mound the floppy disk to do this.  I believe you can
> toss the "(u)mount" lines above and it will work just as well...

you *definitely* don't want to mount the floppy disks -- you're using
them as raw devices when you use "dd".

rday


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