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Whats the (linux)equiv. to DISKCOPY in D
Name: Benthemeek Date: April 10, 2001 at 10:08:56 Pacific
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I couldnt install lilo to my hdd so i made a boot disk. If anything ever happens to this disk im done for. Old dos command was diskcopy A: A:. I need the equivelant for linux or else how to make another lilo floopy..
Name: Robo Date: April 10, 2001 at 10:19:09 Pacific
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I think it's called "dd". Google search for "tom's root boot" which is a startup disk that has it.
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Response Number 2
Name: DMR Date: April 10, 2001 at 16:49:07 Pacific
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Yup, dd (disk dump) is the command. Read the man pages (man dd) for syntax/usage.
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Response Number 3
Name: DMR Date: April 10, 2001 at 22:37:54 Pacific
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Benthemeek,
After re-reading your post, I don't think that dd is going to do the job for you. As far as I know, dd can't deal with the source and target location being the same, as diskcopy could.
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Response Number 4
Name: Bill Freeman Date: April 11, 2001 at 03:04:47 Pacific
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Can you make a boot disk from the install CD? RedHat Linux can, using the program rawrite to transfer the file boot.img to a floppy.
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Response Number 5
Name: Mik Date: April 11, 2001 at 05:29:32 Pacific
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dd can be used if you use the command twice. First make a image file on harddisk and then copy the image file to a new disk.
Mik
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Response Number 6
Name: curio Date: April 11, 2001 at 13:31:15 Pacific
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dd if=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k of=/disk.img
This command will copy the floppy to a file named disk.img in the root partition.
dd if=/disk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k
This will transfer the image to a disk in fd0 - unless you use supermount in which case you will get an error . Need root privileges to do it all .
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