Hello,


On Thursday, May 19, 2005, at 11:21 AM, Peter Fr=F6hlich wrote:

> So I went home (the USB drive is at school and I can't take it with me=20=

> for various reasons) and popped in the disks. None of them booted. I=20=

> tried holding down all kinds of keys, but even when I stopped the Mac=20=

> from accessing it's hard drive, it would just spit the floppy I made=20=

> right back at me.
>
> Alright, long sad story, brief question: Is there *any* way I can use=20=

> the old Mac itself to just write boot sectors to those floppies? It is=20=

> running 7.1 right now from its hard drive, but I am not even sure =
where=20
> to look for such a feature. If that's not possible, what is the=20
> *proper* way to write these disk images from OS X, including boot=20
> sectors? How do I get around the weird verification error?


As far as I can remember the mac has no special boot sectors. A system=20=

disk is a disk with the correct files on it.

Remember that for booting netbsd you need a 7.x system, 6.0 won't work.=20=

At least it didn't, I don't know how the situation is now.

What computer are you using do write the disk? If you have a mac I'd=20
guess there are no particular problems, just use DiskCopy. I don't know=20=

how it is with MacosX, but since it reads and writes HFS effortlessly, I=20=

doubt there are troubles.

_R