[Peeweelinux] how to creat a standalone image file on my HD

[Troy Engel]

Do it to an actual floppy, then use 'dd' to pull it off the floppy to a 
file. Something like 'dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/var/tmp/floppy.img bs=2048' 
should do the trick (check that for errors first).

-te

Yuval Yohai wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to create an floppy image file on my HD and then send it
> to a friend. But I am not able to it since the only options i see in
> the pwlconfig is doing it into a partition or a device. I tried to
> attach a loop device with no luck.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> Yuval
> 
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