Cheers Peter!
Will give this a go. Just have to find a 3.5 inch floppy drive I can connect
to my Mac (running 10.5.8) - a USB floppy drive I presume.
I found this one on the Net:
Will your command line work with a mid 2011 iMac running 10.8.5 with this
kind of USB floppy drive plugged in?
I've got a bunch of blank DD 3.5 inch disks already so no problems there.
Thanks & regards,
Rob.
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From: Peter Heitzer
<Peter.Heitzer(a)rz.uni-regensburg.de>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 14:25:52 +0200
To: Colin Shapiro <musos(a)icon.co.za>za>, Rob Mayo <rob.mayo(a)luxsci.net>
Cc: "sgroup(a)sgroup.ca" <sgroup(a)sgroup.ca>
Subject: Re: [sgroup] S550 disks L503-L509
> On
8/13/2014 at 13:27, Colin Shapiro <musos(a)icon.co.za> wrote:
Hi Rob,
I've emailed you those disk images but getting them onto floppies could be a
problem as I explained in my email.
If anyone can suggest recent software (other than SMAC which is OS9) that
will help, please jump in here.
AFAIK the disk images are raw images (512*1440=737280 bytes) So a simple
dd if=<imagefile> of=/dev/<floppydevice>
should do the job on Mac OSX. Be careful to use real DD diskettes with 720 KB,
not HD 1.44 MB.