I am not always around my mother however to show her how to format a floppy, many instructions I do tell her she often forgets. I am not claiming to be computer-illiterate, I know my way around computers of any OS quite well. This isn't something that computer-illiterate people do. Gparted and Gfloppy are programs that can format floppies in the extremely rare event that anyone would want to use a floppy disk.įor your particular use case, you are formatting a floppy disk so you can install an operating system on an old computer. There isn't a lot of point to dedicating developers to allowing Gnome to detect that a disk is a floppy disk, provide a menu item, etc when there are more pressing things to work on. The first version of Ubuntu was in 2004, floppy disks were dead by 2000. Then it's up to you to know how to get your computers boot menu up and select "boot from floppy"Īlternatively, you can just use a emulator to run the OS directly from the floppy image (free ones include VBox (use this if you like GUIS) and Bochs (use this if you're into CLI) ) That's all that is required a simple copy, paste, and save. You should hear the floppy drive rev up and overwrite the contents of the floppy with the OS. img extension)ģ.) Copy the contents of this file to the clipboardĤ.) From within your hex editor, open your actual floppy disk (probably /dev/fd0 or something) and paste the contents from your clipboard onto the very start of the floppy and save. Don't use GHex it won't work).Ģ.) From within your hex editor open your floppy disk image file (it probably has a. Here you go for your CLI instructions:ġ.) Open your hex editor (I use hexcurse it's very good.
However, installing the OS to a floppy can be done very simply with just a hex editor.
You might want to research that if you're dead set on a GUI app. I have a GUI application called "Floppy Formatter" but I have never used it. Anyways, it's very, VERY simple to install these things.
It's VERY common for os developers to create floppy images for their OS's since a floppy image is just a simple flat binary with a.
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