thanks for the reply.
i checked out the utility you suggested, but i'm not creating a image from a real floppy. i just want a blank floppy disk to push and pull files. i dont even know if any machine i have still has a floppy disk to go that route.
anyway the method i used was to just create a floppy image from the vsphere console.
If you edit a VM. Select the floppy disk, there is an option to 'create a new floppy disk image in datastore'.
Specify a name and you get a empty floppy image? at least that what i assumed.