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I have a W95 HDD that I've placed in an external USB HDD enclosure that I want to make a bootable DVD copy of.

fdisk -l shows these devices:

<snip>
     Partition table entries are not in disk order

     Disk /dev/sdb: 2111 MB, 2111864832 bytes
     64 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1023 cylinders
     Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 = 2064384 bytes

        Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
     /dev/sdb1   *           1        1022     2060320+   6  FAT16

Based on Preston's book (p. 111 and the section on Intel Bare Metal Recovery, I tried this command:

 eric@lenovo-1:~/Desktop$ sudo dd /dev/sdb1 Moms_HDD

Which generated this error message:

dd: unrecognized operand `/dev/sdb1'
    Try `dd --help' for more information.

So I have two questions:
1. What should my dd command be?

2. If I then burn the contents of this folder (Moms_HDD) onto a DVD, will I have a bootable DVD that will run that old system?

Thanks.
EB

The syntax to do what you were trying is dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=MOMS_HD

I can't vouch for whether or not that will be a bootable iso image, but it *will* be everything on /dev/sdb1

yes david you are correct, i think you can get a bootable iso image