Does anyone have an original TS-DOS install disk?
The manual at http://www.club100.org/library/doc/tsdos.html
talks about a disk with a file called BOOT on it, and the directions
show that this disk is special like the TPDD util disks in that it has
whatever special bits the drive firmware looks for to do the bootstrap.
If you have one of these original disks, could you collect a disk image
with github.com/bkw777/pdd.sh, or lend it to me long enough to do that?
(I'd explain better how to actually do it if anyone actually turns up)
Maybe the special rule is simply being the first file on the disk and/or
having an 0x01 byte as the first byte in the name, but there is probably
more to it than that. The ts-dos manual suggests their disk can
bootstrap on both tpdd1 and tpdd2, but the tpdd1 and tpdd2 util disks
don't have the same format for their boot files, Floppy_SYS and
FLOPY2.SYS. The tpdd2 disk has the first byte of the name is actually
0x01 before the F, which normally isn't shown or handled by any normal
tpdd clients, can't be copied etc. But the tpdd1 disk does not have
that. And the ts-dos manual says the BOOT file can't be copied so
whatever it is it's going to be special in some way.
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bkw
