22 Sep
2001
22 Sep
'01
10:10 a.m.
On September 22, 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 of all (okay, maybe just 'many') of the old DOS floppies I have so
that if they disks get trashed or the bits fall off I can remake 'em. I'm
assuming I'd probably be making these archives from a Windoze box although
DOS or even FreeBSD or Linux is a possibility.
I'd just dd(1) them from to a file, gzip them, and save the disk
images.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD
22 Sep
22 Sep
12:06 p.m.
At 06:10 PM 9/22/01 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
On September 22, Gordon Zaft wrote:
When I archived my collection of PC 5 1/4s a while back,
I choose to use .zip archives. Unless the disks have a
boot sector or are non-FAT, do you really need a disk image?
On the other hand, I can't help but think some crafty hacker
must've created a device driver for a PC that'll mount a
floppy image as if it were an actual floppy.
- John
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 of all (okay, maybe just 'many') of the old DOS floppies I have so
that if they disks get trashed or the bits fall off I can remake 'em. I'm
assuming I'd probably be making these archives from a Windoze box although
DOS or even FreeBSD or Linux is a possibility.
I'd just dd(1) them from to a file, gzip them, and save the disk
images. 
8:44 a.m.
I'd just
dd(1) them from to a file, gzip them, and save the disk
images.
When I archived my collection of PC 5 1/4s a while back,
I choose to use .zip archives. Unless the disks have a
boot sector or are non-FAT, do you really need a disk image?
On the other hand, I can't help but think some crafty hacker
must've created a device driver for a PC that'll mount a
floppy image as if it were an actual floppy.
- John
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