floppy

[nmeyers at javalinux.net (Nathan Meyers)]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 11:21:04AM -0400, Anthony J. Gabrielson wrote:
> How do I read a raw floppy?
> 
> I have never had to before...

A "raw floppy" is one containing a stream of bits not organized into
a file system. As Adam said, use "dd". For example:

    dd if=/dev/fd0 bs=1k

will read the bits from the disk and send them to stdout. If it's a
tarball recognized by gnu tar, this will work to untar it:

    dd if=/dev/fd0 bs=1k | tar xvf -

Nathan Meyers
nmeyers at javalinux.net

> 
> Thanks,
> Anthony
> 
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Adam S. Moskowitz wrote:
> 
> > The two most likely formats are an MS-DOS filesystem or a raw disk.
> > 
> > The former can be read on any DOS/Windows system, or the the "mtools" on
> > Linux or Sularis (mread and mdir).
> > 
> > The latter can be read using dd (on Solaris or Linux). Or, try reading
> > with cpio or tar, since that's a common way to write raw floppies.
> > 
> > Good luck.
> > 
> > AdamM
> > 
> 
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