Re: MicroDrive Re-Do-Do

[scott@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us (Scott Alfter)]

In article <4696b105$0$14100$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>,
Andy McFadden  <fadden@fadden.com> wrote:
>Scott Alfter <scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us> wrote:
>> To create a ProDOS partition with mac-fdisk, use the C (create with type
>> also specified) command, and when asked for the partition type, use
>> Apple_PRODOS.  Since there are no tools on Linux to format ProDOS partitions
>> (yet), you'll still need an Apple II (or an Apple II emulator) to format the
>> new partition.
>
>Once the partitions are in place, you can use CiderPress to stuff
>formatted disk images in (e.g. create a blank 32MB ProDOS image and load
>it in).  The DiskImg library should be able to format the partitions
>directly, but there's no UI to initiate it.

Forgot about that...hell, I just used it a few days ago to format an image
file for use with KEGS.  After pulling the images off of my System 6.0.1
install CD, I was able to do a clean install of System 6.0.1 inside KEGS.

(Wine 0.9.40 appears to not want to run CiderPress, though (it crashes as
soon as it tries to open a filesystem), and I've not tried doing anything
with the libraries yet to make them usable under Linux.)

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