LiteGamer
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Joined: Sun Jun 16, 2019 9:43 pm

Trying to use floptool

Hi am trying to use floptool to add a file to a IBM disk image but I am a bit confused. The command I am using is as follows.

$ ./floptool flopwrite auto pc disk.img game.exe GAME.EXE

I get the following error message.
Error: Filesystem 'pc' unknown

I don't understand what the second and third argument are. If I had a list of acceptable values it would help. Can anyone shed some light on this problem?
mhoes
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Joined: Wed Oct 26, 2016 12:26 pm

Re: Trying to use floptool

LiteGamer wrote: Wed Jul 30, 2025 11:14 pm Hi am trying to use floptool to add a file to a IBM disk image but I am a bit confused. The command I am using is as follows.

$ ./floptool flopwrite auto pc disk.img game.exe GAME.EXE

I get the following error message.
Error: Filesystem 'pc' unknown

I don't understand what the second and third argument are. If I had a list of acceptable values it would help. Can anyone shed some light on this problem?
I found some documentation on the tool over at the mamedev website [1]. Also, running 'floptool' without any arguments gives you some more information on it's usage. Sorry I cannot be of more help, perhaps someone else will come along.

[1]
https://docs.mamedev.org/tools/floptool.html
LiteGamer
Posts: 4
Joined: Sun Jun 16, 2019 9:43 pm

Re: Trying to use floptool

Don't apologize. Thanks you for helping. I could not find the answer I was looking for in those documents. However I was able to find some other similar program that I was able to get working.

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