Belkin OmniView manual Creating an Image, Floppy Images, Unix and UNIX-Like Operating Systems OS

4-2 Virtual Media

Menu Options

Creating an Image

Floppy Images

UNIX® and UNIX-Like Operating Systems (OS)

To create an image file, make use of “dd”. This is one of the original UNIX utilities and is included in every UNIX-like OS (UNIX, Sun Solaris, Linux). To create a floppy image file, copy the contents of a floppy to a file. You can use the following command: dd [ if=/dev/fd0 ] [ of=/tmp/floppy.image ]. In this case, “dd” reads the entire disc from the device “/dev/fd0” and saves the output in the specified output file “/tmp/floppy.image”. Adjust both parameters exactly to your needs (input device, etc.).

MS Windows

You can use the tool “RawWrite for Windows”.

Select the “Read” tab from the menu. Enter (or choose) the name of the file in which you would like to save the floppy content. Click on the “Copy” button to initiate the image-creation process. For related tools, please see the home

page of the “fdos project” (http://www.fdos.org).

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