How to deal with WinImage .ima files in linux

[pobbz]

Hello.

Ok, I know this is not a Fedora specific question, but concerns linux in general. However, since I'm running Fedora, I thought to post here anyway.

The problem is that I have an .imz file that I need to deal with. I know it's a WinImage compressed disk image. Indeed there's a .ima file inside it. I know it's an image of a floppy disk. The question is, how do I put it on a floppy? Might a simple 'dd' command do? With what parameters, what blocksize (does it even matter)?

Also, I found out that I don't have any floppies lying around. Is there a way to create a loopback device to handle floppy images such as .ima, like one can do with .e.g. .iso cd images? Yes, I could go to a store and try to find a pack of floppies, but it would be nice to be able to get away without doing so (yeah, call me lazy...)

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Solved! As per instructions presented here, I had to do (as root, of course):

# mkdir /mnt/floppy
# /sbin/losetup /dev/loop0 ./TheDiskImage.IMA
# mount -t vfat /dev/loop0 /mnt/floppy

'TheDiskImage' is the name of the image file. I knew that the image file had a vfat filesystem on it, so I could specify it for the mount command. I don't know how to find out the filesystem on a disk image, if not previously known. There are multiple loop devices under /dev so I justs selected the first one, loop0.