[Coco] Drivewire/Superdriver feature request, and questions

[Richard E. Crislip]

On Tue, 5 May 2015 17:56:05 -0400
Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> A live cd is a very good idea, no need to go to the trouble of
> installing Linux just for this.  There may be ways still to image the
> zip disk with Windows too, I just don't know them  (but I know Linux
> can image anything).  dd is a common Unix utility but I don't know
> that every Linux flavor in the world includes it.  Most live disks
> probably do, or contain some similar tool.
> 
> At this point, your issue is more generic and not actually coco
> specific. The question is really "how do I image a zip disk to a file
> using a PC?"  I suspect there are a lot more people in the world who
> know how to do that than there are people who know what a coco is :)
> You might find Google turns up guides or that Linux user groups that
> have information on how to do it.  Until you have the contents of the
> zip disk in an image, no need to limit your search to coco related
> things.  I'm not trying to say you won't find help here,  but
> expanding your options might turn up more answers. On May 5, 2015
> 5:37 PM, "Mathieu Chouinard" <chouimat at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Try to find a linux livecd, like systemrescuecd
> > On May 5, 2015 5:11 PM, "David Gettle" <david17361 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I'll have to download a copy of linux and install it, the only
> > > computer I have internet access with is a laptop with win 8.1,
> > > and win8.1 will not allow linux to install in it. is the DD
> > > program part of linux or does it have to be downloaded separately?
> > >
> > > On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > On May 5, 2015 4:05 PM, "David Gettle" <david17361 at gmail.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Arron, thanks for he suggestion, but win32diskimage only
> > > > > works with
> > > data
> > > > > cards, and not USB devices.
> > > >
> > > > That's too bad.  Windows has weird rules about different types
> > > > of
> > device
> > > > access.  If you have a Linux box handy, 'dd' has no problem
> > > > making
> > images
> > > > of any block device.
> > > >
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The problem is, if his lappy is very new, EFI or more specifically
UEFI. This is replacing BIOS and it will not allow Linux to install or
even do a live boot because Linux doesn't not have Microsoft approved
Certificates. He will have to get into BIOS and turn UEFI off before
that can happen 8-/. I have a two year old Toshiba laptop and I fight
this all the time.