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Agent007:
Hi all,

I have this Win98 boot floppy. Am planning to copy the contents to a CD, so as
to make the CD bootable......Just using the copy command does not work as some
of the stuff is not read while copying. Is there a command which will make a
sector by sector copy the floppy and dump the contents to an ISO image? which I
will later burn onto a CD.

thanks,
007

PS:- I know that there r other bootdisks out there but I need to use the Win98
only

Stryker:
I'm not sure if it will work or not, but you could try:

# dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/folder/to/save/floppy.iso

and then just burn that image on the CD. Tell me how that works, i'm curious myself.

ForceSphere:
Ummmm...your tring to make a boot disk for win98 but with Linux?  I dont see how that would benefit you but just try it with plain old Win98, show all files and copy

[ February 05, 2003: Message edited by: Force ]

Stryker:

quote:Originally posted by Force:
Ummmm...your tring to make a boot disk for win98 but with Linux?  I dont see how that would benefit you but just try it with plain old Win98, show all files and copy

[ February 05, 2003: Message edited by: Force ]
--- End quote ---


That wouldn't copy the boot sector, and he wants it on a CD.

Agent007:
Right, i wanna create the win98 bootcd in linux because there may be some tool lying around which would dump the contents of *all* the sectors on the floppy to an ISO image....

Using the copy and paste command will NOT work because the boot sector of the floppy will not get copied to the CD or a folder on the HDD.

Try it out and just copy the contents of a win98 boot floppy to a folder, then recopy the stuff to another floppy and c...It won't work...

007

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