CCopying the floppy's structure into an image file with Linux

CCopying the floppy's structure into an image file with Linux

[Victor Tsaran]

Hello, listers!
Do any of you know whether it is possible to copy the image of a floppy disk
into an image file with Linxu? Say, I have a floppy and I would like to have
its image stored into a file onto hard drive. How would I do this with
Linux?
Regards,
Vic

Re: CCopying the floppy's structure into an image file with Linux

[Kirk Reiser]

If you wish to copy an image of a disk in Linux you use 'dd'.  The
syntax is something like this:

dd if=/dev/fd0 of=filename

There are many other option you can give 'dd' to specify the block
size and how many block to copy and the like.  Do a mn on 'dd' for
more information.

  Kirk

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Re: CCopying the floppy's structure into an image file with Linux

[Victor Tsaran]

Thanks.
Vic

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> If you wish to copy an image of a disk in Linux you use 'dd'.  The
> syntax is something like this:
> 
> dd if=/dev/fd0 of=filename
> 
> There are many other option you can give 'dd' to specify the block
> size and how many block to copy and the like.  Do a mn on 'dd' for
> more information.
> 
>   Kirk
> 
> -- 
> 
> Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility
> e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario
> phone: (519) 661-3061
> 
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Re: CCopying the floppy's structure into an image file with Linux

[Jacob Schmude]

Absolutely, and it's as easy as dd it. For example:
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=file.img ; sync
Rather than using dd to write it, you use dd to read it. The command at
the end, sync, tells linux to close the file buffers so nothing's left
open that shouldn't be.

On Thu, 25 May 2000, Victor Tsaran wrote:

> Hello, listers!
> Do any of you know whether it is possible to copy the image of a floppy disk
> into an image file with Linxu? Say, I have a floppy and I would like to have
> its image stored into a file onto hard drive. How would I do this with
> Linux?
> Regards,
> Vic
> 
> 
> 
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