[plug] copying a floppy larger than 1.44

[Russ Powers]

Well, thank you Mr Raven and Mr Craig, putting both your replies together with 
my stack of old floppies I now have coyote backed up.

To recap:

Insert coyote floppy
dd if=/dev/fd0u1680 of=coyote.img
Insert blank floppy
fdformat /dev/fd0u1680
dd if=coyote.img of=/dev/fd0u1680

It was only my distrust of the quality of my floppies (and the fact it was 
real easy to check, just turn power off, swap floppies, turn power on :-)) 
that made me check if the backup worked. Glad I did.

Thanks again for the help.


--- Russ Powers <russ at powerstech.com> wrote: 
> --- 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