From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 7 2: 2:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theo.namodn.com (anyhosting.com [209.0.100.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24EAE37B7AF for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 02:02:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@theo.namodn.com) Received: (from robert@localhost) by theo.namodn.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA29420; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 02:15:29 -0700 Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 02:15:29 -0700 From: Rob To: tienhuat lee Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: diskette duplication--exactly Message-ID: <20000607021529.A28631@namodn.com> Mail-Followup-To: tienhuat lee , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20000607060447.9953.qmail@web702.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0.1i 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 Organization: Namodn Artists - http://www.namodn.com X-OS-Type: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Look at the man page for dd. You can do such a copy from floppy ( or any device ) to a file thusly dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/home/me/floppy.img Remove master floppy from drive and place blank in drive dd if=/home/me/floppy.img of=/dev/fd0 Just an example. me happens to be my user account. No mounting neccessary ( in fact, it is unwise ). rob helmer ( namodn ) On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 11:04:47PM -0700, tienhuat lee wrote: > Dear Sir/Madam: > > How to duplicate "exactly" a diskette, including everything -- > partition tables, bad sectors, file system, file, time stamp, ... BIT > BY BIT? > > Thank you. > > Best regards, > Lee Tien Huat > ------------ > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! > http://photos.yahoo.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message