How to get files out of a floppy image

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So, we bought some hardware for one of our aging servers.

And, for whatever reason that utterly baffles me, the driver files do not exist on the included CD. Instead, they exist in floppy disk image files on the CD, which first must be written to a floppy disk, from which you then copy the files. Unfortunately, every floppy disk we have is corrupt due to age. So I need a way to extract the files from that image.

Please note that the reason we don't just replace the server entirely (which is definitely due) is because that is not in the budget right now.

EDIT: the disk image is in UFS format apparently. Windows programs will not work!

Best Answer

Try loop mounting the image. Since floppy images don't have partitions this can be done easily:

sudo mount -o loop floppy.img /mnt/tmp
# or
sudo mount -o loop,ro -t udf floppy.img /mnt/tmp
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