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  Homemade Linux on Floppy
Syslinux floppy 0.2 is a syslinux floppy disk (msdos formatted) so you can add and remove parts easier.
Syslinux floppy template is a tarball with a syslinux floppy disk (msdos formatted) and most the components which went into creating it.
There are currently no instructions yet but you should be able to follow my updated floppy howto and understand how to use this to make your own floppy.
thecommandline.org /projects/floppy.html   (2898 words)

  
 picobsd(8) - floppy disk based FreeBSD system
on the floppy image, so they can be loaded separately from the kernel (and updated individually to customize the floppy image).
If you are planning to dump the image onto a hard disk (either in a partition or on the whole disk), you are not restricted to one of the standard floppy sizes.
Using a large image size per se does not waste RAM at runtime, because only the files that are actually loaded from the image contribute to the memory usage.
www.gsp.com /cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=8&topic=picobsd   (2376 words)

  
 Towodo Software - Floppy Image   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Logically recreate bad sectors when writing floppy disks, allowing for an exact duplicate of your source disk to be created.
Floppy Image has NOT been discontinued and will still be developed.
Click here to see some screenshots of Floppy Image when it is being used.
www.rundegren.com /software/floppyimage   (297 words)

  
 Active@ Floppy Recovery. Floppy Disk Recovery Tool. Floppy Self-Extractor.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Floppy Recovery is a tool for data recovery from removable devices like floppies.
Disk image is a mirror copy of your entire floppy disk stored as a file.
Using this type of images saves you some space on a hard drive, the decompression time, however, would be somewhat longer.
www.floppy-recovery.com   (334 words)

  
 Rawrite and related programs
A disk image is a file which contains the full contents of the specified disk in a single file; the contents are generally read as raw sectors so all data including partition information (FAT), boot sector, along with actual directory entries and files are copied to the image.
Floppy Image Creator (Freeware v1.4.1, no source) http://www.geocities.com/johnno_ann/, Windows 95/98/Me/NT (2000/XP untested), "This program allows you to make an exact image of a floppy disk and save it to a file, and of course restore the image to disk when ever required.
Virtual Floppy Image Converter (no source) (Japanese) http://www.vector.co.jp/soft/win95/util/se151106.html, see specifically http://www.vector.co.jp/soft/dl/win95/util/se151106.html (vf011010.zip) free for personal (non-business), Windows 95/98/NT4/2000, Primary purpose is to "change various disk images into the various forms." Has a plugin architecture to support various disk image formats.
www.fdos.org /ripcord/rawrite   (2874 words)

  
 Using Amiga Floppy Disk Image Files
These disk images can be "inserted" and "ejected" like normal disks by pressing F12 (a dialog with a Floppies tab appears) while the emulation is running.
IPF disk image files can also be loaded in the emulation via the Floppies tab, however the free IPF software (not included with Amiga Forever) needs to be installed first.
If the name of the file containing the disk image ends with ".zip" (instead of ".adf" or ".adz"), it means that the disk images (probably in ADF format) have been stored inside an archive in ZIP format.
www.amigaforever.com /kb/3-112.html   (842 words)

  
 How to Start and Stop Floppy Drive Redirection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Use this procedure to make a local floppy drive or a floppy drive image (.img) appear as if it were a floppy drive attached to the Sun Fire X4100 or Sun Fire X4200 server.
Select which floppy image file (.img) to redirect in the pop-up menu.
The floppy drive image is redirected to the local machine.
www.sun.com /products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/html/819-4883-11/c~sys_sp_gu_rem_flop.html   (535 words)

  
 OCModShop: Die, Floppy, DIE!
The 3.5" floppy drive was brand new on 286 computers in 1987, and is the only component that still remains in use today, practically unchanged in its 18 year history.
the floppy drive has too many moving parts, and can be bought for $10, so there is no way that anyone can be making a profit from their sale.
There are ways around having to use the floppy, but these methods are band-aids and does not fix the source of the problem (that the industry is supporting this antequated hardware).
www.ocmodshop.com /default.aspx?a=265   (1000 words)

  
 Create floppy image section at Free Download Manager   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Floppy Zip Disk Rescue is an easy-to-use tool to rescue corrupt file from Floppy disk and ZIP disk or other peripheral devices, It fast scans disk sectors, rescues the damaged files and copies the correct data to hard disk as possible as it can.
Meant for floppy disks that generate 'Drive A: is not accessible' or 'The disk in drive A: is not formatted' errors in WINDOWS.
Recovers files from a floppy that generates 'Drive A: is not accessible' or 'The disk in drive A: is not formatted' error in WINDOWS.
www.freedownloadmanager.org /downloads/create_floppy_image_info   (666 words)

  
 How to create a floppy disk image in Virtual PC 2004
You can use floppy disk images as if they were physical 3.5-inch disks in 3.5-inch disk drives.
Although you may be able to use a physical 3.5-inch disk, there are some situations where you must use a floppy disk image.
Virtual PC only works with floppy image files that are exactly 720KBor 1.44 MB.
support.microsoft.com /default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;834311   (272 words)

  
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This image was last modified (August 2001) to be more up to date and user friendly; it uses the lilo boot loader with apparently won't work for some bioses.
The CD needs to have the rescue disk image already loaded into memory by the boot loader BEFORE the kernel starts up, so that all the kernel has to do is transfer the rescue image from one part of memory to /dev/ram0.
Be sure to test the CD ahead of time; the floppy image may work from the floppy and fail to work from the CD if the ramdisk was not loaded properly.
staff.washington.edu /dushaw/rescueCD.html   (1681 words)

  
 VM Back
This is a virtual floppy drive for Windows NT / 2000 / XP (works also on 2003, it seems).
You can mount a floppy image file as a virtual floppy drive and directly access the contents -- view, edit, rename, delete or create files on a virtual floppy, format a virtual floppy, launch a program on a virtual floppy...
Drag-and-drop an image file with the right button to the virtual drive icon to open it (Windows 2000 and later).
chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp /vmware/vfd.html   (949 words)

  
 VMTN Discussion Forums: Creating a floppy image!!! ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
In particular, ISO files can be pretty much any size and always use the iso9660 filesystem, while floppy image files must be one of a few specific sizes and can use any filesystem that fits on a floppy disk (though in practice it's almost always FAT).
I just created the floppy which you can do with Worstation, connected the.flp file to the VM formatted it like a normal floppy drive then dagged and dropped the files to the A: drive.
As its name implies, it can mount a floppy image, and you can interact with the virtual floppy drive as you would with a physical one.
www.vmware.com /community/thread.jspa?threadID=26968&tstart=0   (825 words)

  
 Ultimate Boot CD - Converting Bootable Floppy Disks (Like PowerQuest Partition Magic / DriveImage) into Bootable CD
Even if the content of floppy is not exactly of 1.44 MB size, the size of this image file will always be 1.44 MB.
Change the format of the image file from 1.44 MB to 2.88 MB Copy data of second floppy diskette into the image of first using inject files/directory (see snapshot below).
Navigate to "images" folder in WinISO and add the image file(s) which were saved in ".IMA" format in that folder.
www.ultimatebootcd.com /convert.html   (988 words)

  
 Tucows Downloads - Floppy Image 2.3.3 Shareware Software   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Add descriptions to or convert your old image files.
This utility enables users to create images from the physical floppy...
Undisker is a program that manages disk images created from...
www.tucows.com /preview/222418   (415 words)

  
 What is WinImage
The disk image is an exact copy of a physical disk (floppy, CD-ROM, hard disk, USB, VHD disk, etc.) or a partition that preserves the original structure.
With WinImage in place, you can recreate the disk image on the hard drive or other media, view its content, extract image-based files, add new files and directories, change the format, and defragment the image.
With previous version of WinImage, all image with size equal or below 2.88 MB are loaded in memory, and all image bigger are stored on uncompressed.IMA file.
www.winimage.com /winimage.htm   (1328 words)

  
 Floppy Image Editor - MagicISO
MagicISO is a ISO CD/DVD image file creating/editing/converting tool, it can directly edit the CD/DVD image file and extract files and folders from it, as well as directly make ISO files from your CD/DVD-ROM or hard disk.
MagicISO is in sole possession of the intellectualized ISO document format analyzer, it can process at the present time almost all types of image files, including ISO and BIN, it may even support new image files which are yet to be created.
MagicISO can open these image files, directly extract files and folders, edit it and convert other image files to the standard ISO format.
www.free-news-release.com /Floppy-Image-Editor---MagicISO-Detail_912.html   (337 words)

  
 Ghost Floppy Disk Image Library
Typing the name of the image at the command line or double-clicking on the icon of the image will cause the required files to be extracted to a blank diskette in the floppy drive.
The floppy drive letter must be specified during the extraction process.
Upon completion, the floppy diskette should be bootable in the specific type of computer.
www.ulm.edu /~hutton/ghost   (153 words)

  
 Need to convert Floppy image to CD image - TechSpot OpenBoards
So I have to create exact images of this floppy so that the deleted files will be copied as well as the regular files.
Yes, you can use a floppy image to make a bootable CD (a floppy drive will be emulated during bootup) but you will have no access to the contents of that image normally.
Even if you could make a CD image out of a floppy image the CD fileystem is radically different from the FAT filesystem you use on the floppy.
www.techspot.com /vb/topic33557.html   (717 words)

  
 Active@ Floppy Recovery - Download Active@ Floppy Recovery - Recover lost, deleted or formatted data from floppy disks. ...
Active@ Floppy Recovery - Download Active@ Floppy Recovery - Recover lost, deleted or formatted data from floppy disks.
Active@ Floppy Disk Recovery is a tool for data recovery from removable devices like floppies.
Floppy Self-Extractor is a unique feature that allows you to create a compact executable from different sources (diskette, raw or compressed floppy image) and self-extract it back to the floppy, as well as extract raw floppy image from executable.
www.sharewareriver.com /product.php?id=8078   (184 words)

  
 Floppy
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www.floppysoftware.com /docs/floppy   (174 words)

  
 bochs: The Open Source IA-32 Emulation Project (Get Involved)
We are trying to collect a minimal hard disk or floppy disk image for all free supported operating systems that Bochs can run.
Floppy image that boots FreeBSD, not a complete installation.
Linux kernel image for x86-64 from Andi Kleen at SuSE, which can be used as a boot floppy.
bochs.sourceforge.net /diskimages.html   (217 words)

  
 Russification of Macintosh: Mysterious Floppy "image"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
You can take a floppy with something on it, have a program read it and write a snapshot of it in an "image" file, which you can send to someone via e-mail, for example.
Turns out that you really don't have to write the "image" out to a floppy to use it on your own computer once you've got the "image" from the Internet or other source.
And so an icon of a floppy disk appears on the desktop and you can use this "make-believe" virtual floppy as any regular floppy disk.
www.friends-partners.org /partners/rusmac/image.html   (238 words)

  
 FileForum | Floppy Image
Floppy Image lets you create image files of floppy disks and back (for backup, shipping, or transfer).
RawWrite can serve the purpose if you ever *need* to deal with floppy images.
Nice little app, it isnt the same as diskcopy in DOS as it stores the floppy as an image so you dont need to 1) keep putting the original floppy to make a copy and 2) you dont even need to keep the original floppy!
fileforum.betanews.com /detail/Floppy_Image/1013851406/1   (170 words)

  
 boot from floppy image - TechIMO Forums
can anyone tell me how to boot from a floppy disk image which is located on the hard disk (ima format - winimage windows 98 startup disk).
Open up the image in the program, and select write floppy.
You can't boot from the image if it's not in the floppy drive.
www.techimo.com /forum/t110982.html   (73 words)

  
 UNERASER.Disk Image.Floppy started Recovery Utility.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
A Disk Image is a copy of the drive saved in file.
Disk Image can be useful for backup/restore purposes or, even for the analysis by other utilities.
If you need disk image of the whole drive in one file - you can merge them later on manually.
www.uneraser.com /quest5.htm   (174 words)

  
 Making a bootable CD from a bootable floppy image
My observation using floppies is that manufacturers of floppy media and drives no longer insist on high quality.
Assuming the floppy image file to be turned into a bootable CD is
bootable image is assumed to be relative to the file being imagized, in this case
www.troubleshooters.com /linux/floppy_image_on_cd.htm   (578 words)

  
 Floppy Image - Towodo Software
R-Drive Image -- Drive Image and Disk Backup tool creates disk image files on the fly....
Acronis True Image -- Complete disk imaging or file backup software for home and home office users....
Image for Windows -- Backup and restore entire partitions/volumes....
www.efreedown.com /soft_102503.html   (298 words)

  
 problem writting floppy image - LinuxQuestions.org
When i try i "mount /dev/fd0" i get the problem, probably because, the image has no space to be written in the floppy.
I would guess that you are trying to create an openbsd or netbsd boot floppy which is probably the reason your seeing the UFS filesystem warnings.
In addition the fstab entry for the floppy is not configured to mount a UFS filesystem.
www.linuxquestions.org /questions/showthread.php?t=340202   (372 words)

  
 smart boot manager floppy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
This nifty little floppy bootdisk allows selecting various devices to boot from a menu, and even allows booting a CD-ROM in machines where the BIOS doesn't support it.
Download and write this SBM sbootmgr.dsk floppy image.
Floppy disks are one of the least reliable media around, so be prepared for multiple bad disks.
linux.simple.be /tools/sbm   (147 words)

  
 Towodo Software - Floppy Image   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Create image files of floppy disks and back (for backup, shipping or transfer).
All Image will do everything that Floppy Image does and is only marginally more expensive.
Click on the icon below to download Floppy Image from CNET (815k).
www.towodo.com /products/floppyimage   (297 words)

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