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Pardon me for top-posting.
Wait one minute here... Can you find a disk image of the boot floppy?
Can OS X mount it? Then let's thing smarter, here. We have Mac OS X
devices, powered by UNIX. If the included OS X apps don't work, then
let's use UNIX. I often remember making rescue floppies and net-stall
floppies on my Linux machine.
Two questions:
One: Is this disk image binary? Is it just a literal list of bits for
the disk, or is there metadata in the file?
Two: You can mount it, right?
If it's a binary image, then things are *really* easy. Follow these
steps:
1.) Mount the disk image that is your boot floppy
2.) Open the Terminal (It's in your Utilities folder)
3.) Enter the command
mount
4.) A list of all devices and disks mounted should come up. It should
look similar to this:
/dev/disk0s3 on / (local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (local)
fdesc on /dev (union)
<volfs> on /.vol
automount -nsl [149] on /Network (automounted)
automount -fstab [168] on /automount/Servers (automounted)
automount -static [168] on /automount/static (automounted)
/dev/disk2 on /Volumes/Quake II v1.0.8 (local, nodev, nosuid, read-
only, mounted by kichigai)
/dev/disk3 on /Volumes/Quake v1.0.9 (local, nodev, nosuid, read-only,
mounted by kichigai)
5.) Make note of which line your disk image is mounted. Write down
the /dev/disk[Number] that is in that line.
6.) Make note of which line the disk you wish to write to is mounted.
Write down the /dev/disk[Number] that is in that line.
7.) Open Disk Utility
8.) Unmount (NOT EJECT) the disk you wish to write to
9.) Go back to your Terminal. Enter this line:
dd /dev/disk[Number of the boot floppy image] >/dev/disk[Disk
you're writing to]
10.) Wait for this to finish, eject your disk, and test it.
This should create a direct, perfect, 1:1 copy of the disk image to
the floppy disk.
Duct Tape Tip No. 162:
Write a book about duct tape's many uses.
--The Duct Tape Book by Jim and Tim
On Nov 30, 2005, at 16.45, Tim Maloney wrote:
It won't work. I use a USB Superdisk (1.4mb floppy & 120mb floppy)
drive
while booted in Classic to make mine.
You could get another Compact and use it for that purpose. It
always helps
to have another lying around.
On 11/30/05 3:00 PM, "Compact Macs"
<[email protected]> wrote:
Subject: Re: Creating Boot Floppies in OS X
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:49:53 -0000
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From: "Brierley, Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Well, I've had a play with the "bless" command in OS X but it
doesn't =
seem to help with creating boot disks.
I got a blank, formatted (under 7.5.3) floppy.
Copied the System folder from a known good boot (OS 8.1) disk image.
At the Terminal did:
sudo bless -folder9 "/Volumes/18/System Folder"
Would only run with sudo, and the folder9 option specifies a non
OS X =
folder. But it doesn't work. The disk just gets spat out at startup.
"Remember, No matter where you go....there you are." -- Buckaroo
Bonzai
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