Greetings,
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Friday 11 January 2002 19:16 pm, Glenn Williams wrote:
> > Four or 5 months ago, I tried to make a copy of the LILO boot floppy
> > that was created when I installed SuSE Linux 7.2 I discovered it was
> > impossible to do so. I later read that the reason it can't be copied
> > has to do with the unique file system installed on the floppy disk
> > before the boot info is copied to the disk.
>
> Well guys.... I have here a genu-wine SuSE 7.3 Pro boot disk and I copied
> it using DD and the copy boots just fine.
>
> DD could care less what file system is on the floppy.
Absotively correct! I've used 'dd' to copy Mac-OS 7.5 install floppies
with no problems. Some of the disks are bootable and some of them are
larger than 1.44MB.
Nice thing about 'dd' is that it reads *entire* tracks with no regard
for files or formatting. And when you lay down a new track it writes out
everything, including the sector ID's, timing marks, etc. An exact
duplicate. Nice. :-)
--- Jay
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