Installing an operating system on the 11/83 - update.

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Tue Feb 22 16:25:35 CST 2022


On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 3:24 PM Rod Smallwood via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

>
> On 22/02/2022 16:20, Rod Smallwood via cctalk wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> >       I did find some RX50 images of the MicroRSX distribution.
> >
> >      So I fired up my DEC Celebris FX. It runs W95 and has a 3.5 inch
> > floppy, a real RX33 5.25 inch drive and a CD-R.
> >
> >    Its accessible on my network so getting files onto it is not a
> > problem.
> >
> >     So install putR.com , and transfer the image files.
> >
> >     Huh! putR says the RX50 disk is write protected. Its not and the
> > drive works normally with the disk from the MS DOS prompt.
> >
> >      So much for putR writes RX50's on RX33!
> >
> >     Rod
> >
> >
> So to sum up I have yet to find a tried and tested way to write a RX50
> disk image to an RX50 disk on a W95 PC with a 5.25 inch drive.
>

Are you using RX50.SYS? And properly formatted media?

Warner


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