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First post, by DolchPac65

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Wondering if anyone could help me get this new to me Hyperion Luggable up and running. Let me prefix this with that this device is before my time and scope of knowledge, but I'd like to learn.
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What I know:
Device turns on and floppy drive spins (you can see the disk spinning with the cover off).
Inside is very clean, the CMOS battery has not leaked (but I will be replacing it) but is likely dead due to age
The screen turns on and you get an amber blinking cursor, after it tries both floppy drives several times it displays "Disk Fault"

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What I think from my limited reading thusfar
Maybe the CMOS battery dying wiped the ROM or whatever stores the boot info out of memory?

Resources I've found:
The Getting started manual indicates that perhaps if I had the "Hyperion Computer Master User DOS Diskette" that I would use that to initially boot to set the system up
https://vintagecomputer.ca/files/Dynalogic%20 … Setup-Guide.pdf

That disk might be in one of these files here:
https://vintagecomputer.ca/files/Dynalogic%20 … erion/software/

So where I'm stuck at is I'm not sure which file, if any in that link would be the Master User file, also I'm not sure how to use those .IMD files, google tells me those are likely created with "ImageDisk" but I'm not sure how to extract or use them to get them onto a 5.25" floppy to use in the machine, if thats even the direction I should be chasing?

Any help/advise is as always, greatly appreciated.

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