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Date:      Wed, 7 Jun 2000 13:17:12 +0530
From:      Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To:        tienhuat lee <tienhuat_lee@yahoo.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: diskette duplication--exactly
Message-ID:  <20000607131712.B59113@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
In-Reply-To: <20000607060447.9953.qmail@web702.mail.yahoo.com>; from tienhuat_lee@yahoo.com on Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 11:04:47PM -0700
References:  <20000607060447.9953.qmail@web702.mail.yahoo.com>

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> Dear Sir/Madam:
> 
> How to duplicate "exactly" a diskette, including everything --
> partition tables, bad sectors, file system, file, time stamp, ... BIT
> BY BIT?

You could use dd(1), eg the following should work:
(insert first floppy)
  dd if=/dev/fd0 of=some.file
(remove first floppy, insert second floppy)
  dd if=some.file of=/dev/fd0

Rahul.


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