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

Rod Smallwood rodsmallwood52 at btinternet.com
Tue Feb 22 16:24:39 CST 2022


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.

Rod





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