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04-01-2003, 03:35 PM
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Registered: Mar 2003
Location: New Jersey
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Copying Floppies
I keep LILO on a floppy, but im worried about losing it, so I figure Ill make a copy for backup, but the LILO.conf isnt a normal file, so how do I make an "image" of my floppy to copy to another floppy.
Thanks.
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04-01-2003, 03:43 PM
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Use
dd if=/dev/fd0/ of=lilo_bak.img
Then to get it back on disk
dd if=lilo_bak.img of=/dev/fd0/
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04-01-2003, 03:45 PM
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Thanks for the help and quick reply.  |
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04-01-2003, 03:50 PM
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No problem!
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