[KLUG Members] making floppy img file

[Tony Gettig]

Quoting Bruce Smith <bruce@armintl.com>:

> > 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.
> 
...

> One other use I have is VMware.  I run one program that needs to store
> some data on a floppy.  You can point VMware's floppy device to /dev/fd0
> OR you can point it to an pre-created floppy image file.  Guess which
> one is a _LOT_ faster and more reliable?  :-)

Bingo! Using ISO's and floppy images in VMware is a real timesaver. Between
license disks, boot disks, and bizarre patches to get NetWare 6.5 to even
install in a VM, floppy images will save me a lot of time. Thanks for the
suggestion to use mcopy though, as that will save time physically accessing
certain floppies too.



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