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>20.3. Duplicating disks</H1
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>This simple technique shows you how you would duplicate floppy disks in a GNU/Linux system using dd. This technique is not as useful as it used to be but can still be used for creating an image of a cd (although that is best done through the cd burning program).</P
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>$ dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floppy-image
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>The first dd makes an exact image of the floppy to the file floppy-image, the second one writes the image to the floppy. (The user has presumably switched the floppy before the second command. Otherwise the command pair is of doubtful usefulness).</P
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>Similar techinques can be used when creating bootdisks, you simply use dd to transfer the image to the floppy disk.</P
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