Archiving Floppy Disks

Summary

This show describes how I go about archiving old floppy

disks. These disks date back to the early 90s when floppy disks were a

common way of installing software on personal computers. They were

also used as a portable storage mechanism for data files.

Equipment That I'm Using

IBM ThinkCentre desktop computer with a 3.5in floppy disk drive

Installed the 32-bit version of Slackware 14.2

Making an image of an entire floppy disk

dd if=/dev/fd0 of=filename.dsk

Making a floppy disk from a disk image

dd if=filename.dsk of=/dev/fd0

Copy files from a floppy disk

mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

cd /mnt/floppy

cp filename /some/destination/path/filename

cd

umount /mnt/floppy