On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> I have a boot floppy that I'd like to make a disk image of so I can duplicate it.
>Would the proper way to make it be something like:
>
> dd if=/de/fd0u1722 of=/home/jw/boot.img bs=512
>
> Also should I use count=[what?]
1) that should be "/dev" of course.
2) you really want a bigger blocksize, like 100K, for efficiency
3) since you want to copy the whole image, you don't need a count field
rday
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