Correct me if I'm wrong.  I thought Mac OS X didn't support floppies at all.
That implies to me that even USB floppies may be mishandled under Mac OS X.

-dgl-

At 3:57 PM -0700 5/19/05, Peter Fröhlich wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>On May 19, 2005, at 11:55, Hauke Fath wrote:
>
>> The DiskCopy that came with System 9 can probably do a better job writing
>> the floppy images. 6.1.3 was the last version, it should be available
>> somewhere on ftp.apple.com.
>
>Would be nice if I could use that. I have 10.3 (no classic), and I have 7.1 on the Mac I am trying to "play" with.
>
>> You don't generally write any 'boot sectors' on a Macintosh manually. The
>> system installer creates bootable floppies on demand.
>
>The NetBSD installer? Yes, again that would be great, but I was trying to find out if there's any way I could "fake" boot sectors using just the 7.1 Mac, just to see if I can make those floppies boot. What would I run the NetBSD installer on right now? I can't even partition the drive in the Mac without having a boot floppy to run the Disk Utility from.
>
>Peter
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