[Coco] Re: 6309 microprocessor project: 11-05-2003

John W. Linville linville at tuxdriver.com
Thu Nov 6 13:38:01 EST 2003


Nathan Woods wrote:

> As for an equivalent of DSKINI.EXE, there is not much chance at all of 
> avoiding MS-DOS given how Windows does not like 5 1/4" drives.

We should not neglect the use of Linux (especially with MESS).  The 
fdparm utility can setup the floppy drives for a number of physical 
formats, after which the "dd" command is quite capable of 
reading/writing images from/to the drives.

Just a thought...

John
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