Re: Re(2): Reading files from a diskette from an old MacOS.

2011-01-08 Thread Peter Koellner
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, John Hasler wrote: Peter Koellner writes: Also: You can set the physical write protect switch in the diskette corner to prevent accidental writes. You know, the hole in the corner should not be covered, in case you don't recall... No, no. You put a piece of tape over the

Re: Re(2): Reading files from a diskette from an old MacOS.

2011-01-06 Thread John Hasler
Peter Koellner writes: > Also: You can set the physical write protect switch in the diskette > corner to prevent accidental writes. You know, the hole in the corner > should not be covered, in case you don't recall... No, no. You put a piece of tape over the notch to write-protect the side. Oh.

Re: Re(2): Reading files from a diskette from an old MacOS.

2011-01-06 Thread Peter Koellner
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: !!WARNING WARNING!! I made a mistake in the above. That should have been: dd if=/dev/fd0 of=fd.image.raw bs=8k Right oh. I probably won't have the diskettes until next week and will mount -o ro and will be careful about if and of. [And if the Ope

Re(2): Reading files from a diskette from an old MacOS.

2011-01-06 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
Bob, > !!WARNING WARNING!! I made a mistake in the above. That should have > been: > dd if=/dev/fd0 of=fd.image.raw bs=8k Right oh. I probably won't have the diskettes until next week and will mount -o ro and will be careful about if and of. [And if the OpenVPN tunnel is working will be a