Hi, after a earlier message i did some testing of dd floppy images and Apple's disk copy 6.3.3, a friend of mine claimed it would make floppies from dd images with no special effort, i however had to fsck with it to get it to work... but it DOES work: you must set the file type and creator of the dd image to type: `DDim' Creator: ddsk then LOCK THE FILE, do this before you even attempt to touch it with Disk copy, it will loop back mount the image read-write at the drop of a hat, and if it does that MacOS will of course helpfully remove the boot blocks ruining the floppy image. run Disk Copy, and select `Make Floppy' from the Utilities menu, select the LOCKED image file from the resulting dialog. it will ask you to insert a floppy, then ask if you really want to erase it. (yup were using macos alright...) it should sit there for awhile working on it and when done it should eject the floppy. when the floppy is ejected SET THE WRITE PROTECT TAB! otherwise if you accidently mount it in macos, macos will `helpfully' ruin it. Dan: add the following line to your maps file for mkhybrid when creating CD images: .img Raw 'ddsk' 'DDim' "floppy_image" this will cause the image files on the CD to show up with the correct file type/creator in macos. for people downloading from ftp you will have to use resedit or something to change the file types (or try configuring `internet config' to set files with the .img extension to the above type/creator, but that probably won't work) unless i set these file types Disk copy kept whining about an error -54 (iirc that means resource fork not found. i hate HFS...) sheesh unix is much easier to use then MacOS... -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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