[KLUG Members] making floppy img file

[Tony Gettig]

Quoting Jamie McCarthy <jamie@mccarthy.vg>:

> 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?

I think that's what I will end up doing. I'm trying save some sneaker-net
traffic between two PC's. :) I will probably end up doing more of this. It's
faster accessing an img file in VMware than the physical floppy.

> 
> 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 :)

Thanks for the info!


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