CCopying the floppy's structure into an image file with Linux

[Victor Tsaran]

Thanks.
Vic

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kirk Reiser" <kirk at braille.uwo.ca>
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Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 3:25 AM
Subject: Re: CCopying the floppy's structure into an image file with Linux


> If you wish to copy an image of a disk in Linux you use 'dd'.  The
> syntax is something like this:
> 
> dd if=/dev/fd0 of=filename
> 
> There are many other option you can give 'dd' to specify the block
> size and how many block to copy and the like.  Do a mn on 'dd' for
> more information.
> 
>   Kirk
> 
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