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Swap Disks in OS X

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First post, by Farnsworth

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I've searched for it on this forum and couldn't find it but I'm sure it's asked a million times before,

How can I switch Disks (well actualy virtual diskettes) on Mac OS X ?
I can't copy all the files in one location, the installer first boots from Disk1.ima but then I need Disk2.ima and later Disk3.ima ?

Thanks

Reply 1 of 9, by MiniMax

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Not possible I think. Disk swapping works for CDROM's (and CDROM images), but not diskettes.

Installing From multi floppys
Feature Requests: Floppy Disk Swap support and keep File Date stamps

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Reply 2 of 9, by Farnsworth

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But the readme sais

BOOT
(...)

BOOT [diskimg1.img diskimg2.img .. diskimgN.img] [-l driveletter]
BOOT [cart.jrc] (PCjr only)

diskimgN.img
This can be any number of floppy disk images one wants mounted after
DOSBox boots the specified drive letter.
To swap between images, hit CTRL-F4 to change from the current disk
to the next disk in the list
. The list will loop back from the last
disk image to the beginning.

Doesn't that mean it's supposed to work?

Reply 3 of 9, by Qbix

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uhm mac os x might need some extra key pressed aside from/instead of ctrl

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Reply 4 of 9, by Farnsworth

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To swap the disks or to mount them?

Reply 5 of 9, by Qbix

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to swap them when booting.
(booting is when having issued the boot command......)

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Reply 6 of 9, by Farnsworth

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Just sorted it out, to boot 3 floppies, it needs to look like this :
Z:\>boot E:\Disk1.ima E:\Disk2.ima E:\Disk3.ima
(if E is the drive where your images are located)

I always typed :
Z:\>boot E:\Disk1.ima Disk2.ima Disk3.ima (so I didn't include the E drive 3 times)

And now diskette swapping WORKS (with the normal keys, <fn>F4+ctrl)

Reply 7 of 9, by IIGS_User

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Farnsworth wrote:

I always typed :
Z:\>boot E:\Disk1.ima Disk2.ima Disk3.ima (so I didn't include the E drive 3 times)

In MacOS X, there are no drive letters, a path in MacOS X starts with "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/.../Disk1.ima".

Klimawandel.

Reply 8 of 9, by Farnsworth

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I know 😀
But I first mounted a folder as the E drive
and then started with the E:\ stuff

Reply 9 of 9, by IIGS_User

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Ah yeah, comes into my mind, that works, too. 😀

Klimawandel.