Oops... misread your question. Sorry about that.

What do you mean by its showing something different? What does it show on the mounted device?

does the 'dd' command work for making floppy images (typically seen as .flp), or is there a different tool? I've gotten by with a VM running DOS with 2 floppy drives configured: one points to /dev/fd0 and the other points to a new image that I create using the remote console. I boot the VM, use "diskcopy" to copy the floppy to the image, and shut down the vm. Being able to do it in the console would be MUCH nicer.

since I don't like to get up from my desk if I don't have to, I like to use WinImage to cook floppies or iso's. I must say, MagicISO is pretty slick too.

Better still, put your ISOs on a shared volume on the network and mount that from ESX rather than putting ISOs on the ESX hosts. ISOs on an ESX host works when you have one or two hosts, but any more than that and you're busted.

For example, if you have a NAS server or just another Windows box with a share on it, assuming it's called "filer" and has a share on it called "iso" and assuming your ESX server is DNS aware (if it aint, use the IP for "filer" instead of the name):

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ESX1# mkdir /filer
ESX1# mount -t smbfs //filer/iso /filer
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Check out the man pages for smbmount, as you can enter the uername/password on the command line.

Even better, use an NFS server rather than SMBFS/CIFS...

Cheers
Steve