using rawrite
 

hello,
recently i had some troubles when my bootup disk stuffed up (i dont have grub or lilo installed), i had to do a quick reinstall of redhat 9 but everything is fine again, now i have a bootup disk again.
i have rawrite for windows and was wondering if i can use that to save the bootup disk image on the floppy to my hardrive in case the one i have ever stuffs again, i try to do that but it keeps saying the floppy is being used, i only want to take the image off it though.

Depending on the distro you are running you might have the utility called mkbootdisk or bootdisk which can create a boot floppy with your kernel.

2nd method would be to use the command dd and copy the boot disk to an image file. Then use either rawritewin or dd to recreate the boot disk to you hearts content.

dd if=/dev/fd0 of=btdisk.img