[KLUG Members] making floppy img file

[Bob Kanaley]

Tony,

Did I miss something here? If the file system your making on the floppy is
msdos, why not use a preformatted floppy and use mcopy filename a:, carry
disk to other computer, mcopy a:. destination. No formatting, no mounting,
no umounting.

Bob

Robert V. Kanaley
Manager Information Systems
Agdia, Inc.
rvk@agdia.com
http://www.agdia.com


"Tony Gettig" <tony@gettig.net> wrote in message
news:<mailman.1075315330.1989.members@kalamazoolinux.org>...
> Rock on, Bruce! That worked perfectly! Thanks!
>
>
> Tony
>
>
> Quoting Bruce Smith <bruce@armintl.com>:
>
> > > > 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?
> >
> > # from memory (I hope it's correct):
> >
> > # create file of correct size:
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=floppy.img bs=1k count=1440
> >
> > # make a filesystem in the file:
> > mkfs.msdos floppy.img
> > # you can make any filesystem type, i.e.  mke2fs ...
> >
> > # mount the image as a loopback device:
> > mkdir -p /mnt/floppyimg
> > mount floppy.img /mnt/floppyimg -oloop
> >
> > # - BS
> >
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