First post, by SanSaurus
Hi there!
Background:
I want to backup old floppy disks (as images) and then be able to mount them in dosbox later.
What I did:
- I'm running Linux Mint.
I add an external 3,5" floppy drive (USB)
I dump an image of a floppy using: dd if=/dev/sdb of=disk.img
I start dosbox (still on Linux)
Doing imgmount a ~/disk_images/disk.img -t floppy results in "Can't create drive from file" message from dosbox.
I also tried:
- I tried without the "-t floppy".
If I (on purpose) misspell the image file name, dosbox says "The image must be on a host or local drive." (so I point to the correct image file).
I tried copying the floppy using cat /dev/sdb > disk.img as well. Still the same result.
How do I create proper images of floppies that can be interpreted by dosbox?
Regards,
SanSaurus
PS: I asked a similar question on SuperUser.com, but I don't know if this is more related to linux than dosbox actually?