Burning floppy disk images to CD.

Post #6,623 by acagle 8/24/01 1:33:16 PM Reply	Burning floppy disk images to CD. How does one go about making disk images? I need to burn some old DOS application installation diskettes to a CD of old data.
Post #6,625 by altmann 8/24/01 1:50:10 PM Reply	Raread and Rawrite Raread to make the images. Rawrite to make the disks later (put that on the CD). There are DOS, Windows, and OS/2 versions that I know of. I couldn't find anything that appears to be an 'official site' though. -- Chris Altmann
Post #6,626 by boxley 8/24/01 1:50:20 PM Reply	mkdir disk1 disk2 etc copy the files into those directories then burn cd. When installing you might get some calls to drive a: use he substitute command to subst drive to path. luck, bill Our bureaucracy and our laws have turned the world into a clean, safe work camp. We are raising a nation of slaves. Chuck Palahniuk
Post #6,629 by acagle 8/24/01 2:10:34 PM Reply	Re: mkdir disk1 disk2 etc Yeah, I was wondering if I could just copy every file on every floppy to a single directory. If you ran install.exe, would it just keep looking for the right files in that directory and not even ask for a new location?
Post #6,637 by boxley 8/24/01 3:17:40 PM Reply	on some of the old stuff it would look or a disk label usually disk1 or disk2 so check the labels on the diskette and call yer directories whatever they are nd place the files in that structure. Dont know how many times in the old dos world you would be asked put in diskette labeled inPr213a and the diskette label better match. Usuall hacking their install batch files would fool it. thanx, bill Our bureaucracy and our laws have turned the world into a clean, safe work camp. We are raising a nation of slaves. Chuck Palahniuk
Post #6,642 by acagle 8/24/01 3:35:15 PM Reply	Update. I discovered that dBase 5.0 does, in fact, install properly if one just copies all of the files to a single directory. Thank you for your support. </Jaymes>
Post #6,691 by Ashton 8/25/01 8:13:39 PM Reply	Along same lines: Word6 on floppies What with M$ spl. format for distrib discs.. Anyone done such ? I'd think this earlier license would tolerate a mere medium change, but I don't really care. Prolly somewhere I have a util for creating that format. Somewhere. Can't see how that would be applicable to merely copying them off - could try the \\Diskn subs easily enough with CDRW, or waste a part of a packet-copy CD.. ?? Ashton
Post #6,722 by andread 8/26/01 9:49:42 AM Reply	Re: Along same lines: Word6 on floppies I tried to put Office 4.3 (w/ Word 6) on CD so I wouldn't have to mess w/ 31 floppies but I had no luck After running through the first disk it wanted A: for the next disk unlike other floppy programs I have transferred to CD A Play I Some Music w/ Papa Andy Saturday 8 PM - 11 PM ET All Night Rewind 11 PM - 5 PM Reggae, African and Caribbean Music [link\|http://wxxe.org\|http://wxxe.org]
Post #6,785 by boxley 8/27/01 10:59:06 AM Reply	use the sust command been a long time so syntax is prolly incorrect subst a:\\ c:\\pathname\\disk1 thanx, bill Our bureaucracy and our laws have turned the world into a clean, safe work camp. We are raising a nation of slaves. Chuck Palahniuk

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