Re: making a disk image

2003-10-04 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 11:08:31AM -0700, Marshal Wong wrote: > > I think 'dd' might work for that. Try man dd or info dd for more > information. You use it for writing disk images, so I guess it should > work backwards too. > > dd if=/dev/fd0 of=filename.img Thanks, that worked! :) -- Vikki

Re: making a disk image

2003-10-04 Thread Rus Foster
> I think 'dd' might work for that. Try man dd or info dd for more > information. You use it for writing disk images, so I guess it should > work backwards too. > > dd if=/dev/fd0 of=filename.img > or cat /dev/fd0 > filename.img will work just as nicely Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Just V

Re: making a disk image

2003-10-04 Thread Marshal Wong
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 10:46, Vikki Roemer wrote: > Hi, > I'm working on putting together a floppy-based distro, and I want to back up > my floppies as disk images. What's the quickest and easiest way to do that? > I think 'dd' might work for that. Try man dd or info dd for more information. Yo