on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:30:50PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:48:35PM -0500, B Thomas wrote: > :Hi, > :I have dos and debian installed on my system . I would like to backup the > ddevice drivers that came on dos floppies with my system. I know I need to > use the dd command to make a binary image of the floppy. But I do not know > the exact parameter to pass . Could you please show me a sample command line . > :sincerely > :b.thomas > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floppy.img bs=72k
I'm not sure where you're getting your bs= value.
I tend to use:
$ dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floppy.img bs=1024 count=1440
...though you may not want to set a count if you aren't sure of the size
of the image. Though most 3.5" floppies are 1.4MB, other sizes are
possible.
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