HFS (Macintosh) floppies

Serena · 04-29-2002, 11:50 PM

Is dd able to make and write disk images of HFS floppies? And if it can, is it possible to mount images like CD images can be mounted?

Aussie · 04-30-2002, 06:39 AM

Linux has support for mac filesystems, you just need to load the module before you try to mount it.

Serena · 04-30-2002, 11:32 AM

The modules are in my kernel, but I can't mount the floppies after I give them back to their owner. If I can get images of these floppies, I can tar/gzip the files and keep them on a removable media disk. And once I need them again, I can extract and write new floppies from the images.

Thymox · 05-01-2002, 09:08 AM

Why not try it? Rather than mount the floppies, try just dding them to a series of files. If you then burn them to a CD, you might be able to simply loop mount the floppy images and use them as if the actually disk were in the drive (except faster).

Note: I've never done this with floppies, so I can't say for sure that it'll work. What have you got to lose, though?

dd if=/dev/fd0 of=nameofdisk.img should do the trick.