How do I burn .img files onto floppy disk?

Question

I want to "burn" 3 DOS 6.22 floppy disks. I have 3 .img files but I can't "burn" these .img files onto a floppy. I get the message that the file is too big for the target.

What tool can I use (I used one in the past but I don't remember which one...) to "burn" .img file to the floppy disk?

Solution 1

For floppy disks, It isn't free but I would highly recommend Winimage, I recently used this when messing around with PXE disk images and it works very well for this sort of thing.

Solution 2

And just for completion - dd, the usual Linux way. (You didn't mention your OS.)

dd if=disk1.img of=/dev/fd0

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On Windows:

dd if=disk1.img of=\\?\Device\Floppy0

Solution 3

You're probably remembering rawrite.exe; it used to be included with early Linux distributions like Slackware for creating a bootable LILO floppy. Find it here. (Author's site, may be down.)

Solution 4

I used to use RawWrite for Windows. Works quite nicely and it's free.

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Comments

[Synetech]

Clearly you know that you don’t “burn” a floppy; you write it. ;-)

[r0ca]

Yhea, write is now a bit old as word ;)

[Synetech]

Not really, you write to hard-drives, to flash-drives, to memory-cards, files, CMOS, EEPROMs… (Only optical discs and flash EPROMs are burned. I can’t really think of other types of / verbs for data writing. Huh.)

[r0ca]

Well.. I'm a french canadian so we don't often use the word Write. It's burn or copy. Pretty much...

[quack quixote]

ahh, if only we could tag answers too. this one so needs a [nostalgia] tag.

[r0ca]

I'm not against the idea! For old old old technologies

[r0ca]

Yhea sorry, I wanted to burn .img file over a Windows XP Pro SP3 OS. Sorry for the lack of info.

[Brethlosze]

For some reason this program do not work with all .IMG files