reading ancient floppy formats

[Allan Swanepoel]

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh at pacbell.net>wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 10:09 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> > | From: Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com>
> >
> > | On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 6:01 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh at mimosa.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > | > Unfortunately, the setfdprm command was dropped from Fedora around
> > | > Fedora Core 6.
> >
> > | Have you tried what happens if you run Fedora Core 6 in a Virtualbox
> VM?
> >
> > No.  That might or might not work, depending on how the floppy
> > hardware is virtualized.  On the other hand, I could just boot
> > whatever Fedora I wanted on the real hardware anyway.
> >
> > Why was the command dropped?  Would it no longer work?  Is there
> > another way provided to accomplish the same thing?
> >
> > I think SuSE dropped the command too.  Debian and Ubuntu have it in the
> > fdutils package.
>
> I would download the fdutils package from http://fdutils.linux.lu , try
> to compile and install them, and (if that works) then see what happens.
>
> jon
>
>
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technically, if the physical device is in your bios, you should see a
/dev/floppy device .you should be able to mount this, or just dd it to a
file
dd if=/dev/floppy of=img1.img

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