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How to create Floppy Disk Image on Mac OS X for MS-DOS in vmware fusion
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1. In terminal use "dd if=/dev/zero of=myfloppy.img bs=1024 count=1440" to create file with appropriate size
2. Attach a floppy device in VM setting. Select myfloppy.img
3. Use the "format a:" command to format disk
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bruh830 commented May 5, 2025

Says file is write protected… what to do? readonly is off

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Kentzo commented May 5, 2025

What step fails?

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bruh830 commented May 18, 2025

Apparently Windows 95 says it’s read only and I can’t format it to put data on it

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Kentzo commented May 18, 2025

Sounds like a vmware problem

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bruh830 commented May 18, 2025

I’ll look and see

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