Is there a Linux command like copydisk?

[chapmc]

I'm a Linux newbie. I tried to make a copy of my boot floppy just to have a backup. Linux is installed on a second hd and I need to boot with a floppy. I tried using DOS diskcopy a: a: but it doesn't like the floppy format. I couldn't figure out how to use 'dd' for this. Can it copy an image? (duplicate a floppy track by track)
This isn't a big deal I just am curious.
Thanks.

[Kc2iLq]

why not just open up the floppy in a terminal window, make a temp folder in your home directory, and use:

cp *.* /home/temp/

Then do the same thing to copy it back to the new disk.

-Kc2iLq

[zepper]

Most versions of Linux come with a DOS emulator (if not you should easily be able to find a copy to DL). Just open a command line session and run it. You should then be able to run diskcopy within the DOSemu session. There may be a more direct way to do it, but I can't recall it right now.
..bh.

[jkrohn]

This should work.
Put original floppy in
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floppy.image
Put in new floppy
dd if=floppy.image of=/dev/fd0

Check this page out for a full explination on how to do this using dd
http://www.geocities.com/tipsforlinux/articles/036.html

Jkrohn

[lynchmob]

I'm kinda surprised that no one has an interactive script for doing this?
I do it jkrohn's way.
lynch

[CMonster]

for clarifications

if (input file)

of (output file)

not "if" as in "if" you understand and not "of" as in "of" which I am speaking --just had to say that becasue I was confused as a newbie

[chapmc]

OK I tried
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floppy.image
then
dd if=floppy.image of=/dev/fd0
and it copied the original floppy ok (I guess).
When I tried to boot from the new floppy I get "Boot failed".

Maybe I need to format the floppy first. I was formatted under dos.
jkrohn -- That is a great link to info on "dd". Thanks.

[IQB]

Maybe I need to format the floppy first. I was formatted under dos.

Shouldn't matter. If the floppy's new the commands should have worked. Maybe there's a problem with the original boot floppy image.

[lynchmob]

Found one!
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/linuxcommand....pt_library.php