[ale] Linux utility to close Win9x boot floopy

Jonathan Glass jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu
Mon Aug 23 12:31:00 EDT 2004


Quoting Sunmeet Saluja <sunny at cc.gatech.edu>:

> Can someone please point me to the right Linux/UNIX utility that I can 
> use to clone a Win9x boot floppy?
> 
> I've done this once long time ago using some sort of a raw disk image 
> copy, but cannot remember if it was dd or something else.
> 
> Thanks for your help in advance.
> 
> -Sunny
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Insert boot floppy
$ dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/bootfloppy.bin
Remove boot floppy
Insert blank floppy
$ dd if=/tmp/bootfloppy.bin of=/dev/fd0
Done!

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