[Novalug] How the blazes do I write to a floppy?

Dave Aronson tux2dave at davearonson.com
Sun Feb 3 21:19:16 EST 2008


Beartooth wrote:

> it's a .img file on my hard drive.
> 
>     I also have an external USB floppy drive.
> 
>     So how do I write the one to the other??

Several people have recommended dd.  cp might also do.  I've often used 
a floppy as the target for tar (as in, tar -cvf /dev/fd0 filesToTar).

-Dave

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