Creating Floppy Disk Images for use with Virtualbox

Two solutions:

I made slight edit to the name of the floppy disk image.   Depending on your Linux distribution, you may also need to use 'sudo' for some of these commands.

From Superuser forum:

(http://superuser.com/questions/342433/how-to-create-an-empty-floppy-image-with-virtualbox-windows-guest)

fallocate  -l  1474560  floppy1.vfd

head  -c  1474560  /dev/zero  >  floppy1.vfd

mkfs.vfat   floppy1.vfd

mkdir  /media/floppy1

mount  -o  loop  ./floppy1.vfd   /media/floppy1

From the Virtualbox.org forum:

(https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=1426)

dd  if=/dev/zero  of=floppy2.img   bs=512  count=2880

mkfs.vfat   floppy2.img

mkdir  /media/floppy2

mount  -o  loop  ./floppy2.img   /media/floppy2