How to Create Floppy Images?

Red Chair

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Nov 8, 2001, 7:13:05 PM11/8/01

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I want to simplify installing Windows NT as a guest OS. How do I take my 4
NT install floppies and convert them to floppy images them that can be
"mounted" into a VM?

The docs talk about how to mount floppy images, but I can't seem to find any
docs on how to actually make floppy images.

Is it something simple?

TIA,
-- Red

Dave S

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Nov 8, 2001, 7:42:57 PM11/8/01

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The easiest way that I found is a shareware tool called winimage.
http://www.winimage.com

I allows you to read a floppy image and save it as a file.

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Red Chair

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Nov 8, 2001, 8:13:19 PM11/8/01

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So you have successfully used this utility to make a floppy image for
booting a VM?

Thanks,
Red

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Chuck Gladu

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Nov 8, 2001, 10:29:52 PM11/8/01

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Yes. Just make sure that you tell it to create UNCOMPRESSED floppy
images.

A more cumbersome method that doesn't require any third party software
would be to create a VM that has two floppy drives int he
Configuration Editor (you may need to go into the guest BIOS and
enable the second drive). Point the first floppy to the physical
floppy drive and the second to a newly created image file (through
Configuration Editor). Then use whatever guest OS you want to disk
copy the first floppy to the second.

I actually keep a DOS VM around for just this purpose.

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KATO Kenji

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Nov 9, 2001, 12:21:58 AM11/9/01

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> I actually keep a DOS VM around for just this purpose.

Another merit of keeping such a VM handy is that
you can view and edit the contents of the image file easily.

I sometimes forget which files are in which disk image
and have to rummage through many such image files...

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Ken

Chuck Chopp

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Nov 9, 2001, 11:26:31 AM11/9/01

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KATO Kenji wrote:

I'll second the vote for WinImage. I use it extensively for managing floppy disk image files, both for
use with VMware and also for simply making archives of important floppies such as Novell related software
license diskettes.

You can also use WinImage to view the files in an image, extract them, edit them outside the image and
then re-insert them into the image file again. This can all be done from the comfort of your host system
w/o having to access the floppy image via a VMware guest system.

Regards,

Chuck
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KATO Kenji

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Nov 10, 2001, 3:56:32 PM11/10/01

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Chuck,

I'm not against WinImage. It sure is a good software.
It's just that I prefer the cheaper way ;-)

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Mostafa

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Nov 15, 2001, 3:34:40 PM11/15/01

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Also, using VMware(TM) Workstation 3.0, you can install from a bootable ISO
image created from a bootable OS CDROM.
Mostafa

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