Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:49:18 +0100 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com> Subject: Re: Floppies on VMware workstation FreeBSD guest Message-ID: <201006201449.18659.bruce@cran.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <cone.1277007570.138515.1649.1000@shelca> References: <cone.1277007570.138515.1649.1000@shelca>
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On Sunday 20 June 2010 05:19:30 Francisco Reyes wrote: > Any has had any success with getting floppies to work on VMware desktop 7 > on a FreeBSD guest? > > Did the following to prepare the floppy > > #Create empty floppy image > dd if=/dev/zero bs=1k count=1440 of=/data/tmp/boot.flp > > #create md0 and point it to floppy > mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /data/tmp/boot.flp -u 0 In case you don't know, you can achieve the same thing using some simpler commands: truncate -s 1440k /data/tmp/boot.flp mdconfig -a -f /data/tmp/boot.flp -- Bruce Cran
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