Easier way to create floppy disk images?
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I'm using Vyatta routers with KVM and want to attach a floppy drive with a config file for Vyatta when I boot the image. I'll be doing this over and over again, and as such am looking for an automated way of creating the floppy images.
Right now, I'm doing the following:
- Create floppy image with
qemu-img create
- Format floppy image with
mkdosfs
- Mount floppy image with
mount -t fat /tmp/floppy.img /media/floppy
- Populate floppy image with
cp -r /tmp/configs/ /media/floppy/
- Unmount floppy image with
umount /media/floppy
- Save floppy image with
mv /tmp/floppy.img ~/floppies/
Any chance there's an easier way to do this?! Perhaps a shortcut application that I can give a directory to and it will do all this for me w/out having to mount the image?
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