Is there any way to create a virtual floppy drive in FreeBSD?
The reason I ask is that I wanted to boot up my old IBM PS/2 Server 85, but I get some beeps and need to boot from a reference diskette to clear them. Unfortunately I can't find my reference diskette among the hundreds of floppies I still have around (what can you do with then?). I did find the reference diskette for my Model 95, but wouldn't even get as far as the BIOS and any beep codes. So, having found and downloaded the required diskette image, I'm not sure how to get it onto a floppy. ISTR IBM provided a program - LDIMAGE.EXE which would do the necessary...but I'm wondering if I can use dd() to copy the image to a virtual floppy just to see how it looks. If it seems OK, I'll have to figure out how to use a floppy drive on FreeBSD
The reason I ask is that I wanted to boot up my old IBM PS/2 Server 85, but I get some beeps and need to boot from a reference diskette to clear them. Unfortunately I can't find my reference diskette among the hundreds of floppies I still have around (what can you do with then?). I did find the reference diskette for my Model 95, but wouldn't even get as far as the BIOS and any beep codes. So, having found and downloaded the required diskette image, I'm not sure how to get it onto a floppy. ISTR IBM provided a program - LDIMAGE.EXE which would do the necessary...but I'm wondering if I can use dd() to copy the image to a virtual floppy just to see how it looks. If it seems OK, I'll have to figure out how to use a floppy drive on FreeBSD