[Coco] Nitros disks

[Stephen Castello]

On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 16:30:31 -0400, James Hrubik
<jimhrubik at earthlink.net> had a flock of green cheek conures squawk
out:

>I was finally able to get the whole set of Nitros-9 files, but XP is  
>not making it easy to build a NOS-9 boot disk.  I downloaded the  
>whole pile of stuff to my G5 iMac, unzipped it, then shot it over to  
>my HP Pavilion (running XP Pro), which refuses to open the .dsk  
>images, even following the instructions and using the command window.
>
>I am using a true DOS-formatted 720K 3.5" floppy in the Pavilion A  
>drive, and the procedure would not work either across the network  
>with the files residing on the iMac, or with the files transferred to  
>the Pavilion desktop.  If I double-click on the DSKINI.EXE file a  
>command screen on the Pavilion flashes past so fast that I can't read  
>it (other than seeing what it is).
>
>Anybody have a workaround for something like this?

XP doesn't allow any bios access to the floppy controller.  You have
to use Win98 or DOS.

Or use Omniflop
http://www.shlock.co.uk/Utils/OmniFlop

Stephen
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