On Fri, 25 May 2001, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> I am trying to copy some M$ Office installation floppies to Linux to burn
> a LEGAL CDROM security archive.
>
> When I mount the floppy then df show them as having 1716224 bytes instead
> of the normal 1457664 bytes and they won't copy correctly.
They do this by cheating, and modifying the number of directory entries
allowed in the root of the disk - which frees up more space to put the
image on.
> Can anyone tell me which /dev/fd0* I should be mounting these as.
No, but you should be able to use dd to copy them, vis-a-vis
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=ms_disk_1 bs=512
Repeat as necessary, changing the name of the file specified in the of=
option.
DaZZa
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