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I have created an image of a floppy disk by executing:
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/home/myFloppy.img
My floppy disk is no more working now. So I am thinking now if it's possible to write the image of that floppy to a flash drive and then I may boot my machine from the flash drive.
My machine's BIOS has the option of 'Boot from USB'.
Usman
Posted 2009-12-07T09:19:16.917
Reputation: 757
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Method 5 of the website mentioned by Darren seemed to be a solution to my problem but it did not work for me.
After a little browsing the method shown in "Creating a bootable USB thumb drive - Page 2 " did the magic for me.
Usman
Posted 2009-12-07T09:19:16.917
Reputation: 757
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UNetbootin can do that very easily.
Just run it and there should be a box that defaults to "ISO", choose "Floppy" from the drop-down menu and then browse to your image. It does it in an instant.
confuseduser
Posted 2009-12-07T09:19:16.917
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This website provides several methods to do this, including methods of converting a floppy image to USB boot. There appears to be additional steps other than raw writing the floppy image directly to the USB drive.
Darren Hall
Posted 2009-12-07T09:19:16.917
Reputation: 6 354
An answer that no longer works because the link is dead and there's no real information in the answer. – Jason Goemaat – 2014-08-10T01:58:44.490