25 May
2000
25 May
'00
3:43 a.m.
In an effort to preserve all my miscellaneous driver
floppies I've been
copying them to CD-rom. I figured I should also do this for my DOS 6.3
disks but realized that I don't know how to create a bootable DOS 6.3
system disk from the disk itself. I've considered using dd(1) on unix to
create just the disk image that I can later use dd to copy back out but
was wondering if perhaps there was a better way.
Using dd or the equivalent is probably the best way. I generally zip
the floppy contents (with appropriate flags to preserve hidden and system
files and the volume label) and create a dd image if the disk is bootable.
Eric