[CLUE-Tech] RFI Duplicating floppies

[B O'Fallon]

My thanx to those of you ((Grant and Calvin, mostly) who answered. The below
method works quite nicely, and in fact, I was able to duplicate a boot disk
using it.

And, no, Calvin, I do not really enjoy swapping disks back and forth! <g>

grant wrote:

> I have a good "mostly" answer.  It is a two step process.  This will,
> however, copy any type of floppies, DOS, Mac, Linux, whatever, and the
> filesystem does not have to be supported by the kernel.  Depending on your
> settings, you may have to be logged in as root.
>
> dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/floppy.img
>
> ******Switch diskettes******
>
> dd if=/tmp/floppy.img of=/dev/fd0
> rm /tmp/floppy.img