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First post, by Ezekiel000

Posted on 2009-10-28, 14:33

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Does anyone know of a guide for making images of floppy disks in Linux? And the commands/options needed to mount them in dosbox?

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Reply 1 of 3, by h-a-l-9000

Posted on 2009-10-28, 14:49

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dd if=/dev/fd0 of=~/test.img

1+1=10

Reply 2 of 3, by DosFreak

Posted on 2009-10-28, 15:12

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use "imgmount" for DOSBox, documented in the DOSBox README.

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Reply 3 of 3, by Ezekiel000

Posted on 2009-10-28, 15:46

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Thanks I wasn't sure what sort of file a floppy disk image would be as I've only ever done it for CDs.

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