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How to format and duplicate floppies under Linux

By jeltsch on Wed, 02/25/2004 - 00:00

FORMATING
1. Put floppy in drive, do not mount it.
2. fdformat /dev/fd0

OR: Use "System Tools -> Floppy Formatter " in RedHat 9

DUPLICATING
1. Put source floppy into floppy drive
2. Mount it if it doesn't automount.
3. dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/floppy bs=1024 count=1440
4. Eject floppy, put destination floppy in
5. dd if=/tmp/floppy of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 count=1440