On Wed, 01 Mar 2000, S.Toms wrote:
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Jon Pennington wrote:
jp> On Wed, 01 Mar 2000, George Zeigler wrote: jp> > Hello, jp> > I need to DiskCopy my SuSE 6.2 Bootdisk. Got a command for this? jp> > jp> > I'm looking at 'dd' but the "Linux in a nutshell" does not give an example nor jp> > does the man. SuSE manual seems silent on DiskCopy. jp> > And what format does the new diskette need. minix or ext2fs? jp> jp> man dd ;) jp> jp> <with bootdisk inserted> jp> # dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/bootdisk.img jp> <swap floppies> jp> # dd if=/tmp/bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 jp>
Or, if your really board, you could do something like the following within your .alias file: