On Thursday 10 January 2002 14:08 pm, Lee wrote:
> Recently built a quad boot (Win98/Mandrake 8.0/W3.1b/SuSe 7.2) box. To
> keep down traffic congestion in the mbr I boot into the SuSe using a
> floppy boot disk. For safety's sake I want to make a few duplicate boot
> disks. No matter how I try to go about it I get an error message that
> says the floppy drive can't recognize the file system on the floppy boot
> disk, except in Win where the error messages claims that the floppy boot
> disk isn't formatted. How do you make a copy of a linux boot floppy in
> general and SuSe in particular.
>
> Lee
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For any diskette:
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/path-to/bootimage
then make the new floppies with:
dd if=/path-to/bootimage of=/dev/fd0
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