On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 18:42, Jeff Vian wrote: > The easiest way to make a usable (and bootable) image of a boot floppy > is with dd. > Use "dd if=/dev/fd0 of=boot.img bs=512 count=2440" to create the file > boot.img that is an exact copy of the floppy. > > That will create a bootable image of the floppy that then can be put > back onto another floppy using rawrite from dos/windows, or dd on linux. Of course... for rescuing a failed/broken Fedora installation, the CD is actually quite good. It holds a lot more handy software than a boot floppy. I consider floppies to be 'single use' devices... at least for critical uses. After being burned (badly) by some "rescue" disks that couldn't several years back, I have never depended on them again. CDs all the way! > Barry Yu wrote: > >I want copy all contents in the bootable floppy into my data storage partition, and copy them back into a blank floppy in case I need - I had bad experience in open a blend new box of floppy and 3 consecutive floppy even not workable at all! I must prepare if the current boot floppy one day is gone. Moreever, I really want to know above copy process what have I missed that caused the new floppy not bootable even with correct contents in it (At least I can't see what I had missed). > >Thanks for helping. -- Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxx against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 http://www.metacon.ca/ascii / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves
