Working with Floppy Images

[Ed Swierk]

Michael A. Peters <mpeters <at> mac.com> writes:

> Is it possible to extract files from a fat32 floppy disk image (created
> with dd) from the cli without mounting the image?

Check out the mtools package, and the relevant man pages: 1 mtools, 5 mtools,
mcopy.

You'll need to create a fake drive entry in ~/.mtoolsrc to get the commands to
work with a disk image file.

--Ed