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to: HOLGER GRANHOLM
from: RICHARD MENEDETTER
date: 2016-12-05 09:50:00
subject: Diskcopy

Hi Holger!

04 Dec 2016 11:47, from Holger Granholm -> Tony Langdon:

 TL>> If you just want to make a backup:
 TL>> dd if=/dev/fd0 of=myback.img bs=16384

 TL>> Or if you have 2 floppy drives and want to copy directly from disk
 TL>> to disk
 TL>> dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/fd1 bs=16384

 HG> And if I have only one disk drive?
 HG> Doing a diskcopy in DOS or OS/2, I just diskcopy from a: to b: .

See the backup case above.
Simply change the disk in your drive, and write back the image that you just
made.

 HG> Everybody else seems to understand, that *nix means the Linux
 HG> operating system that all these Ubuntu/Debian/Zorin/RedHat etc. use.

No.
Unix is not Linux and Linux is not Unix.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix

Linux is a Unix like operating sysstem.

CU, Ricsi

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