[Coco] Drivewire/Superdriver feature request, and questions

[Mathieu Chouinard]

It's part of gnu coreutils and in the rare case the livecd use busybox,
it's also included
On May 5, 2015 5:56 PM, "Aaron Wolfe" <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> A live cd is a very good idea, no need to go to the trouble of installing
> Linux just for this.  There may be ways still to image the zip disk with
> Windows too, I just don't know them  (but I know Linux can image
> anything).  dd is a common Unix utility but I don't know that every Linux
> flavor in the world includes it.  Most live disks probably do, or contain
> some similar tool.
>
> At this point, your issue is more generic and not actually coco specific.
> The question is really "how do I image a zip disk to a file using a PC?"  I
> suspect there are a lot more people in the world who know how to do that
> than there are people who know what a coco is :)  You might find Google
> turns up guides or that Linux user groups that have information on how to
> do it.  Until you have the contents of the zip disk in an image, no need to
> limit your search to coco related things.  I'm not trying to say you won't
> find help here,  but expanding your options might turn up more answers.
>  On May 5, 2015 5:37 PM, "Mathieu Chouinard" <chouimat at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Try to find a linux livecd, like systemrescuecd
> > On May 5, 2015 5:11 PM, "David Gettle" <david17361 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I'll have to download a copy of linux and install it, the only
> computer I
> > > have internet access with is a laptop with win 8.1, and win8.1 will not
> > > allow linux to install in it. is the DD program part of linux or does
> it
> > > have to be downloaded separately?
> > >
> > > On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On May 5, 2015 4:05 PM, "David Gettle" <david17361 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Arron, thanks for he suggestion, but win32diskimage only works with
> > > data
> > > > > cards, and not USB devices.
> > > >
> > > > That's too bad.  Windows has weird rules about different types of
> > device
> > > > access.  If you have a Linux box handy, 'dd' has no problem making
> > images
> > > > of any block device.
> > > >
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