First post, by DaveDDS
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I've just updated the stand-alone bootable ImageDisk
This is a bootable DOS/ImageDisk that can be booted on a system that doesn't
normally have DOS on it. It is a 1.44m 3.5" floppy disk image, which contains:
PC-DOS 7.1 with a config menu offering:
- No additional drivers
- CD/DVD support
- USB mass-storage support
It then enters a menu allowing you to select:
- Standard DOS commands
- Misc. general utiities
- Data transfer utilities
- Network utilities
- ImageDisk
After items have been selected, it creates a RamDisk and unpacks those
things to it. There is also a PKTDRV menu allowing you to select from
*MANY* network packet drivers.
Then you can run ImageDisk to read/write disk images on physical media.
To move images on/off the booted system, you can use:
- DDLINK (Network/Parallel/Serial)
- FTP, TFTP
- Serial TTY/XMODEM
- USB mass storage
This is a bootable diskette image which you can write to a real diskette using
the included XDISK (DOS) or DSKWRITE (Windows)
You can also write it as a bootable floppy image on a CD/DVD - this often makes
that image on the CD/DVD appear as drive A: but this won't affect you ability
to use ImageDisk as it talkes to the FDC hardware directly.
ImageDisk itself was updated to v1.20 a few months back, but I hadn't updated
the bootable edition. In addition I've also updated some of the included tools
to latest versions.
You can get BOOTIMD.ZIP from "Daves Old Computers"
"Download Software/Images" -> "Bootable diskette"
(I wasn't sure if I should post this notice under Hardware or Software... In
my experience more Vogons make use of ImageDisk while testing/debugging floppy
disk setups than to preserve classic software disk images)
Dave ::: https://dunfield.themindfactory.com ::: "Daves Old Computers"->Personal