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11.2.5 Creating an Image
11.2.5.1 Creating a Floppy Image
MS Windows
You can use the tool “Raw Write for Windows”. You can get the
RawWrite software from the website
http://www.chrysocome.net/rawwrite.
Figure 56: RawWrite for Windows selection dialog
From the menu, select the tab “Read”. Enter (or choose) the name
of the file in which you would like to save the floppy content. Click
on the button “Copy” to initiate the image creation process.
UNIX and UNIX-like OS
To create an image file, make use of “dd”. This is one of the original
UNIX utilities and is included in every UNIX-like OS (UNIX, Sun
Solaris, and Linux).
To create a floppy image file, copy the contents of a floppy to
a file. You can use the following command:
dd
[
if=/dev/fd0
] [
of=/tmp/floppy.image
]
dd reads the entire disc from the device /dev/fd0, and saves the
output in the specified output file /tmp/floppy.image. Adjust both
parameters exactly to your needs (input device etc.).
