Re: Bootable ProDOS CD-ROM...

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

m.kelsey@spam.eecs.wsu.edu wrote:

>I used Windows '95 since it has APSI driver emulation in an MS-DOS
>prompt and a *freeware* utility called DISK2CD from 
>
>http://www.goldenhawk.com
>
>It consisted of only these few steps:
>
>	1.  Get all software onto youir Apple II hard drive that you
>		want written to CD.
>	2.  Disconnect the hard drive.
>	3.  Reconnect the hard drive to a Windows '95 or DOS machine
>		with appropriate ASPI drivers.
>	4.  Run DISK2CD.
>	5.  Test the CD out on your Apple II =)
>
>This makes me very pleased that it worked.  Now I can use Copy II+
>6.5 to make disk images in an uncompressed form, store them with
>their file attributes, and have a bootable CD-ROM from which I can
>access the utilities and disk images!  (WooHoo!)  Bye bye to all 
>those 300 5.25" disks! ;)

This is great news!

Do you know if a Zip disk would work instead of a hard drive?
Can you burn HFS partitions as well as ProDOS ones?

I don't have any use for disk images, but I would like to make
permanent backups of my hard drive partitions if and when
I get hold of a CD-ROM burner.