how to images of floppy disk

[miker]

about the only reason I boot into VMware/Win2K now is to read in and create or write out my vast library of useful floppy disk images, mostly made with WinImage and DXP (the media always gets borrowed/lost ;-)

Sooooo....

can anyone recommend a linux util that will enable me to recreate my library of images (I don't mind creating from scratch, there isn't *that* many), it would be best if it creates something that can also be recreated from a Wintel box (ala rawrite - but where is rawread??)

BTW, my fave bootdisk of the moment is the Linux bootdisk that enables you to change the local account passwords on NT/2K machines (inc. administrator)...

Any help will be good help

[godot]

to make a boot disk

dd if=/dev/fd0 of=<filename>

or to write one

dd if=<filename> of=/dev/fd0

the images made can be written using rawrite

[miker]

excellent, thanks!

[mohoel]

Q: Using dd on a Mandrake 7.2, I have a lot of trouble. Since using supermount, I have to manually unmount /mnt/floppy first to get anything, but even then, when I dd using of=/dev/fd0, I get inconsistent results of number read/written. Should be 2880, usually get 21, 28, 24, etc. and the resulting floppy is useless (won't boot).

Same hardware, boot into Winblows and use rawrite on the same .img to the same floppy, and it works. This makes me sick :mad: . Any help?

Thanks.
MoHoel. :mad:

[slapNUT]

It's been my experience that most supermount problems seem to disappear when you quit using supermount. :)

<edit> Now it's a handy tool but to use it you can't stay current with the kernel. Supermount patch is only to 2.4.0 kernel. Also do a forum search on supermount an see how many problems it causes. You can write a script to do your u/mount and its just as quick.

[ 19 June 2001: Message edited by: slapNUT ]