Not the same copy an image from fd0 to hdb

[LanSlide]

I have a gateway for my wireless inet hook. Right now the gateway boots from floppy. It takes about 4 minutes to accomplish this. I purchased a hard drive to hopefully speed the process up. My problem is I have no idea how to copy, or where to copy, the image from the floppy to the hd. When I click on the floppy icon, (in Mandrake 7.2), it fires up the floppy and shows no directory listing, so I have no idea what file to copy. The image of the floppy is the only file I want on the hd. As the BBS states "newbie" that's what I am. I have looked 3 days on how to do this with no avail.
Thanks

[ 25 February 2001: Message edited by: LanSlide ]

[Strike]

so you want to write the image of the floppy to a file on the hard drive? You want to use dd (the data duplicator). Something like:

dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/hdb1/my-filename

Replace the stuff after of= with the appropriate path.

Just re-read the post, and you want this to be the only file on the HD? Try this then:

dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/hdb

That will write everything verbatim to the hard drive, without regard to filesystems and stuff.

[LanSlide]

Thanks man... I think it copied it to the hd. It didn't show any errors, but I still can't see the dir of hdb. I have tried to navigate through the different sub-directories and can't find hdb. I started out wrong with MSWindows. And yes I want only the floppy image on the drive to boot my gateway. :) Will this default to the image I copied to the hd when I start the gateway?
Thanks agan!

[ 25 February 2001: Message edited by: LanSlide ]