![]() NOTES: There are numerous DOS-based utilities for reading/writing disk floppy disk images. Google for 'rawread.exe' or other similar utilities. Select the USB floppy drive device from list on the leftįrom the File menu : New Disk Image… -> Disk Image from your OS calls the floppy drive. Plug in the USB drive and insert diskette. Imaging a diskette on a Mac with an external USB floppy drive: ![]() I've used two different methods for creating floppy disk image files for use w/ VPC (and now Fusion)Ī. I can't believe how easy it was once I followed these instructions. I emailed myself the images and put them on the Mac hard drive. I tried this making the images using the Disk Utility. Image your floppies, follow the instructions to use the floppy images (I created them in Linux using dd of my DOS diskettes). THIS works perfectly, I followed the instructions and it worked great. DOS may not need the disconnect/connect but other OS's do, so that's a best practice.Įdit: Added WinImage as alternative for Windows XP To "switch floppies" during the installation process, you would choose Virtual Machine > Floppy > Disconnect Floppy, and Choose your next floppy image. and reference he first bootable image you made from above. Make sure the new floppy is "connected" and select use floppy image. (A default new MS-DOS virtual machine does NOT have a floppy). In Fusion, importantly you would make sure your VIrtual Machine has a floppy drive by checking in Virtual Machine > Settings and if not using the "+" symbol to add one. ![]() In Linux (any downloadable LiveCD), open a Console shell, and type dd if=/dev/fd0 of=~/floppy.img bs=512, then you email to yourself, or copy the floppy.img file from your home directory to usb drive or burn to cd/dvd. Email or copy this to a usb drive or burn to cd/dvd. or in WinHex the option is Disk Tools > Clone Disk and save as a. In Windows XP, you use can one of my favorite utilities WinImage, here would you would use Read Disk, then Save as an. In OS X with a usb floppy drive, using Disk Utility you would use New Image. In a MacOS 9 machine (most of these have floppies), you would use Disk Copy 4.2 or 6.3 to make a. To summarize, on a Mac or a PC with a floppy drive (even if you have to buy a $10 usb drive at Fry's, etc), you need to make "disk images" which capture the contents of an entire floppy into a file that can be copied to a usb drive, burned on to a cd/dvd, emailed or otherwise transferred to your Mac with Fusion. img extension has the benefit that is mountable in the Finder by double-clicking the icon. flp extension is recognizable by all VMware products. When you make images of your floppies they should ultimately have an extension of.
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