Acorn Zip Disc Image

[Stuart]

Hi,

Can anyone tell me if a 250MB Zip drive will work ?? Ironically I got
rid of my 100MB drive about 6 weeks ago DOH !!!!

Cheers

Stuart

Chris Sawer wrote:
> 
> Various people have been asking for an image of a zip disc formatted with the
> Argonet drivers on an Acorn machine that should be readable with the Bush
> STBs. I've attached one to this e-mail, although it's entirely untested. In
> theory, something along the following lines should get it going in Linux:
> 
> bunzip2 zipImage.bz2
> cat zipImage > /dev/sda0
> 
> (making sure sda0 is the zip drive and not your hard drive!)
> 
> I've compressed it with bzip2 as zip only got the image down to 100Kb or so
> (bzip2 gets it down to 334 bytes!).
> 
> I'd be interested in finding out whether it works or not (all my zip discs
> are formatted like this and it's rather hard to unformat them to test it
> myself). If there are problems then I can have another go.
> 
> If attachments are frowned upon on this list then I apologise, but it's only
> 334 bytes!
> 
> I've got a reasonably working RISC OS desktop up and running on my box (Bush
> IBX-100); if people are interested I could post some information on how I did
> it.
> 
> Chris
> 
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                    Name: zipImage.bz2
>    zipImage.bz2    Type: application/riscos
>                Encoding: base64