[lug] RFI Duplicating floppies

[Calvin Dodge]

B O'Fallon wrote:
> 
> Is there a way to duplicate a floppy disk under Linux, similar to the
> old MS-DOS diskcopy command that would copy a disk by swapping between
> the source and target disks until the duplicate was made?

Do you have at least 1.44 megs of spare hard drive space? If so, then you can
avoid lots of disk swapping with the following:
(insert source floppy)
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=diskimage
(insert destination floppy)
dd if=diskimage of=/dev/fd0

Does that help, or do you really need to swap floppies back and forth?

Calvin