3 Nov
2022
3 Nov
'22
10:43 p.m.
On 11/3/22 3:57 PM, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote:
If they are 5¼ & 3½ inch disks which are not copy
protected and
are readable with standard PC compatible floppy controllers, but not
necessarily limited to standard DOS formats, and you had a older PC
with a floppy controller which you could set up to boot into real
mode DOS, I would start with Dave Dunfield's ImageDisk program.
See a link for ImageDisk 1.19 here: http://dunfield.classiccmp.org/img/
Thank you Glen. That's where I was sort of hoping to end up.
I may actually see if I can get my IBM PS/2 back in service as a starter
for this. }:-)
Doing so serves as:
- A solution to my desired goal of this thread
- A reason to stand Token Ring up for quasi production. -- Don't
talk to me about Ethernet for PS/2s.
- A Reason to stand up a Novell NetWare server for quasi production.
Even if a disk is in a standard DOS format, it can be
helpful to
have an image of the disk rather than just a ZIP of all of the files
copied off of the disk. In one example I was trying to run a setup
program from a set of files extracted from a ZIP and copied back to
disks and the setup program blocked when it was necessary to change
installation disks because the next disk didn't have the expected
disk label. Of course the disk labels weren't saved in the ZIP,
while they would have been saved in images of the disks.
This is a very good example of why a disk image is better than /just/ a
collection of files.
--
Grant. . . .
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