22 Sep
2001
22 Sep
'01
5:05 p.m.
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Gordon Zaft wrote:
Does anyone have any recommendations on software
(preferably free) for
archiving old DOS floppies? What I'd like to do is to be able to make
disk images ... FreeBSD or Linux is a possibility.
Use a BSD or Linux. The command is:
dd if=floppy-device of=file-name
To write a floppy from a disk image, use:
dd if=file-name of=floppy-device
On FreeBSD, the floppy device is /dev/fd0c. The other BSDs and Linux
should have very similar names.
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Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss(a)subatomix.com