Hi, n00b alert
Does anyone have a 101 level boot strap guide for someone wanting to get into creating better-than-dd disk images?
I'm finding myself back in a position where I want to image / preserve multiple 5¼ & 3½ inch disks. I think all of them are PC compatible disks. Probably standard FAT-12 and a handful of super capacity disk formats from the likes of IBM / Microsoft where they tried to squeeze 1.6 (?) MB on a 3½ inch disk.
I have an internal 5¼ inch floppy drive that is in unknown condition (I've never used / tested it since I got it).
I also have (at least one) 5¼ disk that I acquired as a scratch monkey disk to test on before working on disks that I care more about.
I was thinking about acquiring a Kryoflux in the next few months and starting to collect better quality images of disks. I recently saw someone on Twitter suggest that Kryoflux wasn't the best route to go and suggested a SuperCard Pro instead.
I had been using the dd command under Linux against a USB connected 3½ inch floppy drive for most things. But I've come to learn that's not as good as some people would like to see preserved.
So, does anyone have a 101 level boot strap guide for someone wanting to get into creating better-than-dd disk images?
-- Grant. . . . unix || die
