On Thursday 27 February 2003 06:57 pm, Kurt Wall wrote: > Feigning erudition, Tony Alfrey wrote: <snip> > > Possibly. Can you dd the contents off the floppy into a file and then > poke through the file looking for the data that you want? > > $ dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/some/darn/file
Looked promising, but I got dd: /dev/fd0: Input/output error 0+0 records in 0+0 records out <snip> > > I recall that early Compaqs had all manner of proprietary goober > about their systems, such as BIOS data stored in special sectors on > the hard disk, components *only* available from Compaq, and so forth. Ugh! I'm sure they're much better now that they're part of HP. Thanks! We were close, but no cigar. -- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I'd Rather Be Sailing" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
