Formatting floppies, writing floppy images
Oh deary me - something so simple and not only do I know nothing about it; I also can't find anything about it on Google - everyone seems to take it as read that their audience knows how to format a floppy...
Well, how's it done? I'm sure it's simple as you like - that's why I'm a bit embarrassed about asking - but I just don't know what program to use / what commands to give it. When it's done, I need to write a 1.44mb *.flp image to it - how's this done, too? [edit] OK, fdformat /dev/fd0 seems to do the formatting (it's going on as I type) but I still need to know what to do with the image. |
Here's an example of making a boot floppy from the winme.exe which you can get at bootdisk.com .
unzip bootmec.exe ## that makes a file called bootmec.IMA fdformat /dev/fd0 mkfs.vfat /dev/fd0 dd if=bootmec.IMA of=/dev/fd0 |
OK, thanks.:)
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