how to copy ? -- plz help asap

[Maaz]

Dear Gurus
I have bootable flopy. I copied the data(2 files, and One directory) from the flopy to the local-hdd as "#cp -a /media/flopy/ /fdata"

Now floppy lost.
i want to create the bootable flopy ... is it possible ? how ?
and also I want to create a bootable cd, from the contents of /fdata ... is it possible ? how ?

Regards
Maaz

[Ivan Ferreira · Accepted solution]

It depend of what is the boot loader of the bloppy. As suggestion for future "copy" use dd to copy the floppy instead of a simple cp, like this:

dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/fdata/floppy.img

This will create an exact image of the floppy.

What is the purpose of the floppy? You can create a bootable floppy with grub.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4622

[Maaz]

Dear Ivan Thanks.

Actually One of the Software Developer once give me a floppy drive, that contains a Firewall, the firewall is home-made by the software developers, and majority of the codes/logic they use is from http://m0n0.ch/wall/downloads.php.

Now I have lost the floppy, but all the data(files) that were on floppy are still save on local hddisk.

Is it possible to create a bootable floppy/cd ?

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

You should create bootable CDROM/floppy according to m0n0wall manual (http://m0n0.ch/wall/installation_cdrom.php) and after this you'll copy your backuped files to the new floppy/CDROM.