[wellylug] Floppy Images

[David Zanetti]

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On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Jethro Carr wrote:

> I have a floppy disk image. (filename.img).
> I need to put it onto a floppy disk. What is the command?

It's probably safe enough just to cat it:

 cat filename.img > /dev/fd0

But, dd can do it as well if you're not comfortable using cat (which might
not be binary safe..)

 dd if=filename.img of=/dev/fd0

Might need to be root depending on access to /dev/fd0

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