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.