Daniel Woods wrote:
>
> Someone asked me a question I was not able to answer properly.
> They have a server with disk problems, and could only boot up
> again by using the bootup floppy. They wanted to know how to
> make a duplicate of that floppy, as a backup.
>
> I could not think of an easy way, in Linux, to do a win-like
> "copy a: b:"
>
> I suggested copying to a directory, and then back to a new
> floppy, formatted for Linux.
> Is is possible to do something like "dd < /dev/fd0 > /dev/fd1"
> with only one floppy drive ?
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=fd0
Switch diskettes
dd if=fd0 of=/dev/fd0 # repeat for multiple copies
This also results in a backup on HD in the directory you were in at the time.
> I usually copy the required files from /boot that I need.
> Any suggestions ?
>
> Thanks... Dan.
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