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Old 05-17-2005, 11:10 AM   #1
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making an .img of a floppy


how would i make an .img file of a floppy in linux?
 
Old 05-17-2005, 11:23 AM   #2
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Among the many things it can do, Hexplorer can make floppy disk images.

http://artemis.wszib.edu.pl/~mdudek/
 
Old 05-17-2005, 11:33 AM   #3
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are you sure, it looks to me that that is for windows? i need to do this in linux preferably, thanks.
 
Old 05-17-2005, 11:37 AM   #4
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Here's an example using dd

dd if=/dev/fd0 of=boot.img bs=10k count=144
 
Old 05-17-2005, 11:38 AM   #5
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Apparently there are no linux sources avalible. Nevermind...
 
Old 05-17-2005, 11:41 AM   #6
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Here's an example using dd

dd if=/dev/fd0 of=boot.img bs=10k count=144
thanks, thats it.
 
  


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