Another approach might be to put the cpm "install" files on a far inside track on the cf card way out of the cpm range. Use a special IDE program to load them for a cpm install. This is what I did way back when we had only a one card board to backup cpm. On a PC it would be a second partition.
Btw the original reason for the "holes" was to have the cf card disk parameter table the same as a Seagate hard drive I had at the time - nothing more. The problem is now I would have to go back and update all my old floppy disks. John Monahan ([email protected]) On Jun 11, 2014 9:52 AM, "yoda" <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes - but an 8MB CF image can contain a lot of files - so it would > probably be prudent to build a good starter set as a master image - basic > files like assembler standard files shipped from Digital Research (Format, > PIP, etc) in User 0, different editors (Vedit, Wordstar and all > customization files) in user 1, Languages (c, basic, pascal, etc) in user 1 > and so forth. A compressed 8MB image is going to be tiny to download and > then use an image writer (for windows) or dd (if you have Mac or Linux) to > transfer to CF card. Put it in A drive and a blank in B and then build the > system you want from the master. So once we commit to a standard format it > will be easy to build this (especially if we use a format that is > compatible with cpmtools). The current format is not compatible because of > the holes though I have made it work by creating a master image then using > dd with offset to re-create the holes on the CF card (it is really a hack). > > Dave > > On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 7:56:00 AM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: >> >> Wouldn't it be possible to create a "minimal" image that used only a >> small portion of most any CF disk - then use that to boot, and copy the >> system and files to a new "freshly formatted" CF in the other slot. That's >> all a person would need to be up and running easily. >> >> - Gary >> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "N8VEM-S100" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "N8VEM-S100" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
