https://untitledfinale.wordpress.com/2007/10/09/create-mount-and-copy-floppy-disks-images-under-linux/ Create a disk image from the phisical drive: cat /dev/fd0 > imagefile.img Copy image to the phisical drive: cat imagefile.img > /dev/fd0 Simple isn’t it? And now the fun part :P If we need it we can create an empty image and mount it using linux’s loop devices. Creating the image: $ dd bs=512 count=2880 if=/dev/zero of=imagefile.img $ mkfs.msdos imagefile.img or simplier Create an empty floppy image of 1.44 MB: $ /sbin/mkfs.msdos -C /path/imagefile.img 1440 Mounting it: $ sudo mkdir /media/floppy1/ $ sudo mount -o loop floppy.img /media/floppy1/