I want a physical rescue floppy. (I am relucant to depend on my Iomega Zip drive, as they appear to provide MacOS-only software for it. My CD drive is read-only, and somewhat unreliable.)
Under Disk Copy (version 6.3.3), boot-floppy-hfs.img does yield a virtual floppy disk, which Apple's Finder says has `2.6 MB on disk (2,801,704 bytes) for 11 items'. Yet it is supposedly a 1.4 MB disk. What gives? Well, I tried dragging the visible stuff (4 files, I think it was) from that virtual disk to a physical floppy, and booting from that. There was a cute icon for a few seconds, followed by what appeared to be launching of a kernel with the wrong video mode for my monitor. (In BootX, `video=atyfb:vmode:6,cmode:32' works for me. The `6' means 640 X 480 pixels at 67 Hz.) Is there some trivial procedure for passing arguments to the kernel on this floppy? More generally, is it reasonable to hope for a rescue floppy? Is it _really_ 2.6 megabytes, only called 1.44 MB as a cruel joke? --- John (MacPhail)
