[KLUG Members] making floppy img file

[Jamie McCarthy]

tony@gettig.net (Tony Gettig) writes:

> Maybe I'm missing the obvious, but I can't seem to find info on
> this after a few varied googles. Is there a way to create a floppy
> .img file from a directory? I know I can use dd to create an image
> of an existing floppy, but I have a zip file, the contents of
> which I want to extract then make a floppy .img file from. Any
> pointers are appreciated.

I know there exist command line tools to do this, but I don't recall
any names.  If this is just something you need to do once, why not
unpack the .zip onto an actual floppy, then dd it?

If this is something you're doing to prepare for distribution of a
dd file, do that and then re-zip the dd file... either way if you're
going to share the information with anyone, make sure you dd
/dev/zero onto the floppy before copying your data :)
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