2 Jun
2006
2 Jun
'06
6:06 p.m.
On 6/2/2006 at 8:44 PM Richard A. Cini wrote:
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.
Just make an image file with an extension of .LBL for the boot tracks and
then insert a LABEL statement into the definition. When 22DISK formats the
disk, it'll read the .LBL and write it to the disk, starting with the first
sector. There's no limit AFAIK to the size of a .LBL file, so you could
conceivably put a whole disk image in one.
One word of caution, however. 22DISK uses the sector address computation
and ordering rules in the definition to write the .LBL file to disk (it
just makes more sense that way).
Cheers,
Chuck