[Coco] Drivewire/Superdriver feature request, and questions

[David Gettle]

Even if I do manage to get the data transferred it would still be nice to
be able to use both SCSI and IDE devices without rebooting and swapping
hardware.

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Mathieu Chouinard <chouimat at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It's part of gnu coreutils and in the rare case the livecd use busybox,
> it's also included
> On May 5, 2015 5:56 PM, "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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