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Re: KVM with non-standard floppy image size



Tong,

Do you actually have a floppy drive (and media) that can handle 8 
megabytes?  That seems rather unlikely, as the standard 3 1/2" (iirc) 
floppy is 1.44 MB.

Randy Kramer

On Monday 21 June 2010 11:01:33 am T o n g wrote:
> Does anyone has positive experience with KVM using non-standard
> floppy image size?
>
> SIZEKB=8192
> mkdosfs -I -v -C dosfs-8M.img $SIZEKB
> sudo mount -o loop dosfs-8M.img /mnt/tmp1/
> echo aaa > /mnt/tmp1/a
> kvm -fda MSDOS71B.IMG -fdb dosfs-8M.img
>
> I get drive not formatted error when trying to access B: from dos.




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