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 Subject: RE: transferring st games back to disk
Author: chemmad (145.85.226.9)
Date:   04-17-2004 04:08

I discovered
if you wanna use xp it can be handy to
get a life-cd or bootable-cd from a good linux distro. gentoo, it can make your pc work
even without harddisk Leaving your xp intact.

I also found out



Reading ST disks with Mandrake Linux 9.1 created with Fast Copy Pro on the atari ST
If you want to read an write to stdisks with has different size as normal you must read this document. [http://www.stack.nl/~chemmad/Tekstbestand]
Click here for reading more about atari disks with strange sizes like 820 kbyte. Or create a .st file
download some st images here Visit MSA -convertor website if you have a windows machine and want to convert .st to .msa
http://pageperso.aol.fr/zorg63/index-uk.html


Summary.

convert msa to st. with a convertor programmn
steem can do this jop also for you
put the LiveCD in you cdrom and boot into linux from cd.
type at command line:
dd if=file.st of=/dev/fd0u720 count=1 bs720k
this is similar as makedisk.

note:
sides tracks sectors
fd0u820 2 80 10
fd0u830 2 81 10

resp.
dd if=file.st of=/dev/fd0u820 count=1 bs820k
dd if=file.st of=/dev/fd0u830 count=1 bs830k

 Topics Author  Date
  transferring st games back to disk new backtoskooldaze 04-11-2004 18:58 
   RE: transferring st games back to disk new Greenious 04-11-2004 20:07 
    RE: transferring st games back to disk new backtoskooldaze 04-11-2004 22:11 
     RE: transferring st games back to disk new Bill Byrom 04-11-2004 22:54 
      RE: transferring st games back to disk new Zaphoid 04-11-2004 23:08 
       RE: transferring st games back to disk new backtoskooldaze 04-12-2004 00:16 
        RE: transferring st games back to disk new Zaphoid 04-13-2004 23:33 
     RE: transferring st games back to disk new Greenious 04-11-2004 23:59 
      RE: transferring st games back to disk new backtoskooldaze 04-12-2004 00:23 
       RE: transferring st games back to disk new M.U.L.E man 04-12-2004 10:28 
        RE: transferring st games back to disk new backtoskooldaze 04-12-2004 13:35 
     RE: transferring st games back to disk new LaTeX 04-13-2004 17:58 
      RE: transferring st games back to disk new backtoskooldaze 04-14-2004 00:18 
       RE: transferring st games back to disk new LaTeX 04-14-2004 12:41 
        RE: transferring st games back to disk new backtoskooldaze 04-14-2004 21:15 
         RE: transferring st games back to disk new LaTeX 04-15-2004 14:10 
          RE: transferring st games back to disk  chemmad 04-17-2004 04:08 

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