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Go to the directory containing floppy.img file, mount the floppy disk by running: To transfer a file from minix to host computer Mac(let’s say world.txt in minix current directory): To copy hello.txt from the floppy disk to minix directory: In VirtualBox, without minix running, click Setting -> Storage, create virtual floppy disk controller:Ĭlick that icon, browse and select the floppy.img file:īoth commands show the floppy disk content. Eject it(I guess ejection actually is not needed). Let’s say you dragged the file ‘hello.txt’ into the disk. You may drag the files to sent to minix into the disk. Now a volume MYFLOPPY shows up in the Finder. Note: the command by itself “hdiutil attach -nomount floppy.img” is mounting the floppy disk without erasing and reformat it. # right into diskutil as the device to be formatted.ĭiskutil eraseVolume MS-DOS MYFLOPPY `hdiutil attach -nomount floppy.img` # device file where the image is attached (/dev/disk2 in my case), so we just pass that # Attach myfloppy.img and format it as FAT, without a partition map. So 1.4MB is the right size 2)’if’=input file, ‘of’=output file, ‘bs’=block size

Note: 1)I found creating bigger size disk won’t work later when using mtools command in minix. # Create an empty file called myfloppy.img of size 1440 blocks = 1024 KB:ĭd if=/dev/zero of=floppy.img bs=1024 count=1440 #this creates 1.4MB floppy disk When it is installed as a guest OS inside VirtualBox, how to transfer files between minix and the host computer(here i am using MAC OS X) is tricky. Minix 3.1.0(Book version) has networking issues.