Hi David & others, I think there are two answers to this:
1. Diskcopy could have a command line option to treat
a floppy as flat sequence of sectors and copy anything
onto any disk as long as there is enough or more space
2. Diskcopy is right that it is a bad idea to waste
half of the space of
> On Jun 29, 2018, at 9:17 AM, David McMackins wrote:
>
> DISKCOPY throws an error if I try to copy a 720k image to a 1.44M diskette. I
> couldn't find a flag that could do it. I tried setting the size to 720, but
> that threw a different error.
Well, I wrote some tools for personal use
Did he say it was in image format like iso.
Disk copy will only copy to another
disk with the same format ie fat32 to fat32.
Even if it was an image; xcopy would copy
the image just not break it down into
programs and files.
cheers
DS
On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 09:40:48 -0700 (PDT) geneb
writes:
>
try dcopy 1.0 I have transferred even 180kb images to a 1.44 floppy.
Check vogons or oldskool for download
Winimage has a dos extractor and injector for building images.
extract the image and then convert it to a 1.44 easypeasy!
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 12:40 PM, geneb wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jun
On Fri, 29 Jun 2018, Dale E Sterner wrote:
Try xcopy instead.
xcopy doesn't work with disk images.
g.
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On Fri, 29 Jun 2018, David McMackins wrote:
You're right that dd just moves data. But the fact that by merely moving data
it creates what appears to DOS to be a 720k file system that it can read and
navigate correctly demonstrates that it's not a hardware problem.
There is no problem here.
On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 08:17:06 -0500, David McMackins wrote:
> DISKCOPY throws an error if I try to copy a 720k image to a 1.44M
> diskette. I couldn't find a flag that could do it. I tried setting the
> size to 720, but that threw a different error.
Have you tried formatting your floppy as a 720K
DISKCOPY copies the entire disk as an image, very similar to how ISO images
work for copying CD's. That is, DISKCOPY does not just copy the files but
rather copies the entire disk, including all the "hidden" metadata and
formatting and empty space that the disk contains. It is a low-level
Try xcopy instead.
cheers
DS
On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 08:43:01 -0500 David McMackins
writes:
> But if I use dd on my Linux box, DOS sees it as a 720k filesystem. It
>
> doesn't appear to be a hardware limitation. This seems like a
> software
> limitation or bug.
>
>
> Happy Hacking,
>
>
You're right that dd just moves data. But the fact that by merely moving
data it creates what appears to DOS to be a 720k file system that it can
read and navigate correctly demonstrates that it's not a hardware
problem.
Happy Hacking,
David E. McMackins II
Supporting Member, Electronic
On Fri, 29 Jun 2018, David McMackins wrote:
But if I use dd on my Linux box, DOS sees it as a 720k filesystem. It doesn't
appear to be a hardware limitation. This seems like a software limitation or
bug.
The dd program doesn't care what the input or output is, it just moves the
data. The
But if I use dd on my Linux box, DOS sees it as a 720k filesystem. It
doesn't appear to be a hardware limitation. This seems like a software
limitation or bug.
Happy Hacking,
David E. McMackins II
Supporting Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation (#2296972)
Associate Member, Free Software
On Fri, 29 Jun 2018, David McMackins wrote:
DISKCOPY throws an error if I try to copy a 720k image to a 1.44M diskette. I
couldn't find a flag that could do it. I tried setting the size to 720, but
that threw a different error.
You need to use 720k media.
g.
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Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
DISKCOPY throws an error if I try to copy a 720k image to a 1.44M
diskette. I couldn't find a flag that could do it. I tried setting the
size to 720, but that threw a different error.
Happy Hacking,
David E. McMackins II
Supporting Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation (#2296972)
Associate
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