Re: how to copy a disk with copy2plus

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@home.com>]

"thomas" <thomas@pathlink.com> wrote in message
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> ok I know it's been a loooonnnngggg time since I had used copy2plus on
> my laser128. But recently I tried to make backup copies of 5 1/4 disks
> I had created from dsk images on my new IIgs and I can't seem to do
> it.
>
> I'm using copy2plus 7.4 (I believe, though I used 7.2 and 9.??? as
> well) and used the copy->disk option - it seems to copy each track
> from drive a to drive b - but booting the copy always either gives me
> a prodos error or simply dumps me into what appears is the monitor
> (bunch of numbers, etc.)

Did you format the disk first?

> this seems to happen for every disk I tried (copy2plus itself, system
> disk for apple //c, and a generic (unprotected) dos 3.3 game disk.
>
> I remember you had to use one of the 'game' profiles to bit-copy the
> protected disks, but I couldn't find a profile for a regular disk -
> the list only contained games and other copy protected disks. btw. I
> tried formatting the floppy first as well with no luck - but I think
> the copy->disk option should work on an unformatted disk just as well
> - or am I way off.

You could use Copy>>Files. Select the files you want and press
the Go option.

> since I've bored you so far, here's another quick question. If I use
> the copy->files option and copy the files from the copy2plus disk to a
> formatted 5 1/4 (or 3 1/2) prodos disk (I'd rather create a copy2plus
> boot disk on 3 1/2 rather than the 5 1/4), why am I still getting
> unable to load prodos upon bootup. Does formatting a prodos disk make
> a bootup floppy similar to doing an 'init hello' on dos 3.3?
>

To make any disk bootable, Prodos only requires
two files.

BASIC.SYSTEM
PRODOS

I guess on GS/OS disk the PRODOS files was renamed
P8 so renaming it back to PRODOS should work.

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