Re: Creating a (bootable) DOS floppy disk image

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Subject: Re: Creating a (bootable) DOS floppy disk image
From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 09:45:12 +0200
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] htssb0$bu9$1@dough.gmane.org> (T. o. n. g.'s message of "Sun, 30 May 2010 05:16:16 +0000 (UTC)")
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On 2010-05-30 07:16 +0200, T o n g wrote:

> How can I make a DOS floppy disk image under Linux?

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=floppy-image bs=1440k count=1
$ /sbin/mkdosfs floppy-image 

You need the dosfstools package for the latter command.

Sven

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