2 Jun
2006
2 Jun
'06
5:54 p.m.
On Friday 02 June 2006 08:44 pm, Richard A. Cini wrote:
All:
I'm having trouble locating someone (anyone) who has a bootable
5.25" single-density diskette suitable for my VersaFloppy controller. So, I
was wondering the following. What if I setup an old PC with a 5.25" drive
and use 22DISK to prepare a disk and move CP/M 2.2 .COM files to it from
the PeeCee. Then, I would have to figure out how to get the cold-start
loader onto the disk.
Does this sound like a viable scenario?
Writing the system tracks is definitely going to be the hard part, all right.
Because you need that to include a BIOS that's specific to your hardware.
I'm in the same spot with regard to my BigBoard II, which I can boot a Xerox
SSSD floppy on but then I only get SSSD support, even though the hardware
and the drives support DSDD.
If you figure out how to do this I'd sure like to hear about it.
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
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