John vanVlaanderen wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> >I use a boot floppy to start Linux, but would like to make a copy of it
> in
> >case something happens to it. Is it possible to do this?
>
> I always check b4 my suggestions however I am presently a prisoner of
> NT, but this is how I remember it.
>
> cat /dev/fd0 > a_file
> put in a new disk
> cat a_file > /dev/fd0
>
> Hope it works... johnvv
Works for me.
I think you need to make sure the floppy is
formatted correctly first. My 5.1 boot-disks
are minix, while 5.3 are msdos, I am told.
Also the rescue disk is a compressed image,
so don't expect to mount it and view the files.
It needs to be mounted with the loop -o option.
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