On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 01:46:36PM -0700, Timothy L. Bolz wrote:
>
>I have never had the need to make a binary image to a floppy. I'm trying
>to make a rescue disk. I never took notes at the group on how to use dd.
>
>I used this
>dd if=/cdrom/debian/install/rescue1440.bin of=/dev/fd0
>
>
>It copied but when I use ls it gives me a bunch of @#$% garbage which look
>like files. Am I doing something wrong? I don't want to boot to windows
>to make this image.
>
This is all as it should be. dd does not copy things with a file system,
but rather dumps a direct data image on to the disk - it was originally written
to allow *NIX machines to copy IBM mainframe tapes without munging them.
ls tries to examine a filesystem; since there isn't one on the disk - just
a binary image - it doesn't succeed.
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