[plug] copying a floppy larger than 1.44

raven at themaw.net raven at themaw.net
Mon Apr 19 22:12:26 WST 2004


On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Russ Powers wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I use coyote linux which is a router/firewall on a floppy.
> 
> When I created it I chose the recommended floppy image size of 1.68M. Now I'm 
> having trouble copying it for a backup. I've been using:
> 
> dd if=/dev/fd0 of=coyote.img
> 
> change floppy and:
> 
> dd if=coyote.img of=/dev/fd0

try using /dev/fd0u1680 as the device file.

Refer to the devices.txt in kernel sources for others.




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