[Coco] Creating a real floppy from a dsk image over drivewire

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Fri Jul 31 23:07:57 EDT 2009


On Friday 31 July 2009, Michael Furman wrote:
>On Jul 31, 2009, at 6:28 PM, Michael Furman wrote:
>> I have found myself without a linux pc with a real floppy drive and
>> need to create a real floppy disk from a dsk image that I have on my
>> Mac.  Is there any way to do this?  I have tried various things like
>> playing with the drive on/drive off command in hdb dos, and also
>> trying in nitros9 doing backups from /xN to /d0, and also backup f
>> blah.dsk /d0 with no luck.
>>
>> Any hints?
>
>Let me clarify a slight ambiguity in my previous message - I have a
>Coco 3 with a pair of 3.5" drives attached and also have Drivewire 3
>running on my Mac laptop but lack my Linux PC that I would normally
>use to create live floppies from the various .dsk and .os9 images I
>have around.
>
Ahh, no linux boxen at all.  So my advice is just noise, sorry.
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