Re: How to copy floppy disks.

[Anthony E. Greene]

"Manuel A. Camacho Q." wrote:
> I know this must be a simple one, but got no idea. How can I copy floppy
> disks on a single disk drive unit? (from the shell prompt)

There may be something like DOS's diskcopy, but this will work too:

(insert source disk)
mount /dev/fd0
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=somefile bs=1440k
umount /dev/fd0

(insert destination disk)
mount /dev/fd0
dd if=somefile of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k

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