wine users - Nov 2005 - installing a flopy prog with no floppy drive

I am trying to get a programmable database working, and what I see as the only 
solution is a prog like access via wine. The problem is my computer that I 
wish to install it on has no floppy drive, and this copy (the first version?) 
comes with about 10 floppies.

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> I am trying to get a programmable database working, and what I see as the
only
> solution is a prog like access via wine. The problem is my computer that I 
> wish to install it on has no floppy drive, and this copy (the first
version?)
> comes with about 10 floppies.
You can _try_ (with no success guaranteed) the following:
1) Use the Linux machine with a floppy drive to get the floppy images:
   - insert a disk one by one
   - do cp /dev/fd0 img.x (where x is substituted by incrementing number from
     disk to disk) for every disk inserted
2) Transfer the images to Your target machine
3) Using a loop device, mount the first image:
   losetup /dev/loop0 img.001
   mount -tvfat /dev/loop0 /mnt (or -tmsdos, depends on the image's fs used)
4) In Your .wine/dosdevices, create the soft link
   ln -s /mnt ~/.wine/dosdevices/a:
5) Start the installation from a: or start unpacking the software
6) When it asks for a new disk, do
   umount /mnt
   losetup -d /dev/loop0
   and go to step 3 with a new disk
Note that losetup, mount and umount should be done by root, the rest by the
regular user.
              Regards, Pavel Troller