> > Jonathan Sprague dixit: > > > > > > dd if=FILE.EXT of=/dev/fd0 (for floppy a:) > > say I want to make an image of Slackware's boot & root disks from my cdrom > to the floppy, would it be as follows?: > > mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /cdrom
Yes, the image is a file on the file system on the cdrom. The cdrom needs to be mounted so linux can access the files on the cdrom. > mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /floppy No. The image contains the file system that should go on the floppy, and needs to be copied to the raw floppy device. > dd if =/dev/hdb/bare.i of=/dev/fd0 > dd if=/dev/hdb/color.gz of=/dev/fd0 No. You have just mounted the cdrom device /dev/hdb on the directory /cdrom. All the files on the cdrom's file system are now visible under /cdrom, so you need to do dd if=/cdrom/bare.i of=/dev/fd0 [ insert another floppy in the drive ] dd if=/cdrom/color.gz of=/dev/fd0 You will probably need root permission to do this, or be a member of the disk group. HTH, Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054
