Reading From Floppy Disk

[sun1350]

I have mounted my floppy (/dev/hda0) to /mnt/floppy. The mounting was successful. However, I'm not able to see anything when I executed the ls command in the /mnt/floppy directory. It seems that it is not reading from my floppy disk. What is wrong?<br><br><br>My second question is I have a linux boot disk and I would like to make a backup copy of it incase the original copy is corrupted. How could I do that?<br><br>Thanks....

 

[AndyBo]

OK, one thing at a time...<br><br>What format is the floppy in?&nbsp;&nbsp;And what filesystem type did you use when you mounted it?&nbsp;&nbsp;If it's DOS formatted, the following should work:<br><FONT FACE=monospace><br>mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy<br></font><br>Or, alternatively:<br><FONT FACE=monospace><br>mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy<br></font><br>The first will mount all MS-DOS/Windows formatted floppies.&nbsp;&nbsp;The second will as well, but it understands long file names.<br><br>As to backing up your boot floppy, you can use dd:<br><FONT FACE=monospace><br>dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/boot.img<br><i>Insert a new floppy</i><br>dd if=/tmp/boot.img of=/dev/fd0<br></font><br>dd will take a byte for byte copy from the input file (<b>if<b>) and place it in the output file (<b>of</b>).&nbsp;&nbsp;So, the first dd command reads from the floppy and write to a file.&nbsp;&nbsp;The second dd reads from the file and writes back to the floppy.<br><br>Hope this helps.