How do you make a floppy image on a mac mini?

I tried the following to make a bootable floppy image and it would not even read in a virtual machine.  I have Oracle Virtualbox.  I am using a Mac Mini 2011 with 4GB of RAM.  I have tried making a blank floppy and copying to it by dragging and using the Terminal, but neither works.  Here are the cmds I used:
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=1440>floppy.img
Then I mounted and erased the image file in Disk Utility.
cp -Rpv /Volumes/Untitled/ /Volumes/UNTITLED\ 1/
The above command copied all the files from the floppy to the image but the image wouldn't read on the virtual machine.
Thanks,
ericgsch

It's an old thread, but searches still retrieve it. For what it's worth, look at (for example) http://kb.parallels.com/en/4794
The procedure to make an image of a floppy disk is basically as follows:
Put your disk in your floppy drive. Open Disk Utility. In Disk Utility, select your floppy drive, select New Image, select "read/write" and no encryption, then Save (wherever you want the image to be). Then (in Finder) you might want to change the filename extension from .dmg to something else, like .flp or .fdd, depending on what you want the image for. For VirtualBox, you might want .img.

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