How do I burn .img files onto floppy disk?

I want to "burn" 3 DOS 6.22 floppy disks. I have 3 .img files but I can't "burn" these .img files onto a floppy. I get the message that the file is too big for the target.

What tool can I use (I used one in the past but I don't remember which one...) to "burn" .img file to the floppy disk?

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For floppy disks, It isn't free but I would highly recommend Winimage, I recently used this when messing around with PXE disk images and it works very well for this sort of thing.

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And just for completion - dd, the usual Linux way. (You didn't mention your OS.)

dd if=disk1.img of=/dev/fd0

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On Windows:

dd if=disk1.img of=\\?\Device\Floppy0

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You're probably remembering rawrite.exe; it used to be included with early Linux distributions like Slackware for creating a bootable LILO floppy. Find it here. (Author's site, may be down.)

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I used to use RawWrite for Windows. Works quite nicely and it's free.

I'm still using floppy disks (I'm very nostalgic to these days of the 90's) and I recommend DiskWRITE for those who use Windows.

Alternatively, if you're using Linux,nothing is like using dd:

dd if=imagename.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 conv=sync;sync

(I took this from the DEBIAN documentation)

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