> The image, rescue.bin, is an exact binary duplicate of the bits > that should be on the floppy disk. The floppy needs to be created > with a program, such as 'dd', that will dump the raw bits to the disk. > You will then have a compressed ext2 filesystem on the disk, which > windows can't read.
Sidenote: under windows, the dos utility rawrite will make the image (available under dosutils from debian servers)