[Nottingham] boot floppy->boot cdrom

[Joe Wrigley]

Haber, Michael wrote:

>Hi All,
>Not strictly linux but:
>I've got a boot floppy containing some hardware diagnostic tools for a laptop, but no floppy to boot from. Can I make a boot cd from the boot floppy?
>I don't have images of the boot floppys, just a windows .exe that creates them.
>thanks for any help.
>Mike
>
I've not done it, but you can do something like dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floppy.img

and then use:
mkisofs -pad -b floppy.img -R -o /tmp/cd.iso floppy.img
cdrecord dev=0,0,0 speed=12 blank=fast -pad -v -eject /tmp/cd.iso

Have a look at
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/floppy_image_on_cd.htm

Hopefully, that might work :)

Joe