Re: Imaging floppies on a Mac?

["Greg J. Buchner" <buchner@tcfreenet.org>]

On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, bvito wrote:

> I have recently purchased a ProDOS 4.0.2 3.5" system disk, and I would
> like to back it up as a disk image on my Mac, so that I can create a
> new one at any time should I mess it up in any way.  How should I go
> about this?  Should I use DiskCopy 4.2, 6.3.3, or DART?  And do I need
> to boot my PowerMac 9500 with an older system version than 8.6?  Like
> 7.6?  Thanks for the help, I need to be sure that I don't destroy my
> new system disk in the process and that the image I make will be able
> to create working, bootable disks.  thanks.

I do this all the time with my Mac and MacOS 8.1 using DiskCopy 6.3.x.
If you have DiskCopy up and running when you insert a disk it will
automatically go into creating a disk image.  I don't have any experience
with 8.6 though....

Greg B.

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