On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 07:53:58PM +0900, Makoto Fujiwara wrote:
> gr> Yep, there is no way to make a copy of the NetBSD boot floppy from
> gr> within Mac OS. I tried with Disk Copy (from Apple), ShrinkWrap, and
> 
> I don't really understand the point above sentence mention,
> but I usually make copy of NetBSD boot floppy by DiskCopy on
> MacOS ( Making Copy from floppy, not from boot.fs )
> 
>   Suntar makes floppy from boot.fs (file)  but it seems to be weak
> (fragile ?) to make robust boot floppy, so I usually make original
> boot floppy by suntar, and make copy of that floppy by DiskCopy
> (6.1.3).  (Diskcopy needs physical boot floppy. If someone provide
> boot.fs.image, Diskcopy may generate physical copy from it of
> course. )

Have you actually done this? Put your bootable netbsd floppy in the
drive, while the computer was running Mac OS, and been able to make an
image of the disk with Disk Copy? If so, would you please post that
image somewhere so we stop getting requests for it (or, at least, can
direct those requests to a url)?

Whenever I try to use "Make Image from Floppy..." in any of the Disk
Copy-esque utitilies, I get a dialog box controlled by the Mac API,
meaning that when I insert a disk, the same API takes over and tells
me it can't read the floppy I've inserted and that I should either
initialize or eject it.

If you can make this work, then you somehow have a cooler Finder or
Disk Copy than I do.

       ~ g r @ eclipsed.net