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From: Griffiths_DN@cc.curtin.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: IBMPC Demo Disk
Message-ID: <7156.27c29d49@cc.curtin.edu.au>
Date: 20 Feb 91 08:01:13 GMT
References: <1991Feb19.182447.6756@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <1991Feb19.213539.7257@syd.dms.CSIRO.AU>
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In article <1991Feb19.213539.7257@syd.dms.CSIRO.AU>, steveq@syd.dms.CSIRO.AU (Stephen Quigg) writes:
>  What I tried was the following; (were talking MSDOS here)
> 
> debug demo_dsk.ibm
> -w 100,0,0,2d0
> -q
> 
> ( the "-" is the debug prompt.) What happens is that debug reads in the 
> file, and then dumps the image in ram to drive a: ( command means "write
> from memory starting at CS:100 to drive a: (0), starting at sector 0; 720
> blocks (sectors) to be written").
>  HOWEVER, when I tried to boot the disk (on several different machines), it
> started to load (got the welcome message), but it fell over before the prompt
> came up. I'm fairly sure that debug dumped the image properly, and the image
> has the correct CRC, so I don't know what the problem is. I'd like to hear
> from anyone else who tries the same.
> Thanks,
> Stephen Quigg.
> steveq@natmlab.dap.csiro.oz.au
> D

I initially attempted to do the above without success.  However, using
the absolute write function of the Norton Utilities proved successful.
Read the file in then use the menu to select absolute write on sector 0
etc.  It worked for both a 360k 5.25" and 720k 3.5" disk.

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