[plug] copying a floppy larger than 1.44

Russ Powers russ at powerstech.com
Mon Apr 19 22:18:25 WST 2004


--- raven at themaw.net wrote: 
> 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.

I did try that but with no luck. kept refusing to write.


-- 
Regards,
Russ




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