Backups of Distibution Floppies

[Don Faulkner]

In article <478 at loft386.UUCP> dpi at loft386.UUCP (Doug Ingraham) writes:

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Doug> dd if=/dev/rfd0 of=disk1 bs=30k
Doug> Put preformatted destination diskette in drive.
Doug> dd if=disk1 of=/dev/rfd0 bs=30k
Doug> remove destination diskette.
...

Doug> This is not as fast as it would be under DOS because the UN*X vendors
Doug> don't seem to care how fast the floppy driver operates.

dd's default block size is 512;  might get an order of magnitude
increase in speed by using "bs=100b" or something sane...
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