Subject: Re: Boot up m68k Mac (Re: NetBSD PPC)
To: Dr. Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
From: Bob Nestor <rnestor@metronet.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/09/1998 19:02:13
Dr. Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu> wrote:
>Does it require special software to read the secotrs, or just to interp.
>the data? I.E. couldn't we dd a 1.44 MB floppy to a disk file?
I'm not 100% sure, but I suspect that since the drives can read/write Mac
floppies it should be possible to dd a disk file. This certainly works
going the other way. I've used SoftPC and Virtual PC to execute rawrite
and create the 1.4Meg NetBSD/i386 bootable floppy.
-bob