rawriting floppy

[crofox]

I have 5 boot floppies and I need to transfer the data via scp. I copied the contents of the floppies onto hard drive but how do I turn the files back into bootable format so someone on the other end of the line could just save it to floppy and boot. make sense?

tia

[Choozo]

When you copied the contents of the floppies, did you use the dd command? If not, you may not have any bootable 'floppy image' anymore.

The command would be dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/path/to/image-on-disk/floppy_name.img to copy from floppy to harddrive.
To write the image back to a floppy, just reverse the command - if=/path/to/...... of=/dev/fd0

[crofox]

thanks choozo, dd works wonders. no problems whatsoever. thanks again

[Choozo]

You're welcome ..... glad to hear it worked out :)