I note that the numeric-only server now seems to be down.
Also, I see that ImageDisk appears to require real-mode DOS and physical floppy drives. (I have such a machine in the US, but that's a good 13 hours away over an ocean for me, now.) I'm wondering whether you can run ImageDisk in DOS emulation under Linux, or in FreeDOS, without floppies, if you don't need to access the physical drives, as seems to be the case here. Or am I missing something important, again?
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These two files don't seem to be in either the source tree or the tarballs.
Copyright/license issues or something?
Okay, I re-read the README. Now I understand.
I note that the numeric-only server now seems to be down.
Also, I see that ImageDisk appears to require real-mode DOS and physical floppy drives. (I have such a machine in the US, but that's a good 13 hours away over an ocean for me, now.) I'm wondering whether you can run ImageDisk in DOS emulation under Linux, or in FreeDOS, without floppies, if you don't need to access the physical drives, as seems to be the case here. Or am I missing something important, again?
For making blank flex OS (sized) disk images:
dd if=/dev/zero of=mt.dsk bs=512 count=1001
for the larger size.
This URL is not longer accessible:
You can get FLEX2 disk images here:
Relevant utilities here:
https://deramp.com/downloads/swtpc/software/FLEX/FLEX%202.0%20and%203.0%20on%20DC-x/
https://deramp.com/downloads/swtpc/software/FLEX/FLEX%202.0%20and%203.0%20Disk%20Images/
And
https://deramp.com/downloads/swtpc/software/FLEX/
Last edit: Richard Rothwell 2022-09-17