create a virtual floppy image without mount? [closed]

Answer 1

Yes, of course you can do this. Use mtools for the FAT and e2tools or genext2fs for the ext2 filesystems.

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/disk1.img count=1440 bs=1k 
1440+0 records in
1440+0 records out
1474560 bytes (1.5 MB) copied, 0.00569719 s, 259 MB/s

$ /sbin/mkfs.msdos /tmp/disk1.img 
mkfs.msdos 3.0.12 (29 Oct 2011)

$ mdir -i /tmp/disk1.img
 Volume in drive : has no label
 Volume Serial Number is 9913-BFF6
Directory for ::/

No files
                          1 457 664 bytes free

$ mcopy -i /tmp/disk1.img /etc/issue.net ::/
$ mdir -i /tmp/disk1.img
 Volume in drive : has no label
 Volume Serial Number is 9913-BFF6
Directory for ::/

issue    net        28 2012-06-26  10:49 
        1 file                   28 bytes
                          1 457 152 bytes free

And of course, I have no root rights.