tezza
Veteran Member
Now that my Kaypro is up and running again I'm picking off from where I left off. At the time of failure I was creating disks using Dave Dunfield's utilities and also giving the Kaypro a "burn-in" test. The beast is running a low-mem check as I speak. Last time I did this the machine had the keyboard issue after it was through. Fingers-crossed not this time.
Many of the images I've got off Dave's excellent collection are non-bootable. The question is this? Can I execute a SYSGEN command from the CP/M system disk directed at these disks to make them bootable or will that damage files? I suspect the latter, but my web search for information seems ambiguous on this point. Some sites suggest this procedure doesn't damage existing files. SYSGEN'ing an existing disk created from a image will be much quicker than creating a blank formatted bootable disk then PIP'ing all the files to it.
A related question. Some of Dave's images are copies of the original bundled disks which came with the Kaypro II. Booting the disks gives you a message that these are originals, copies should be made and these ones should be stored in a safe place. Fair enough, but even if you make copy using the COPY command as instructed in the Kaypro II manual, the message still appears??? Can anyone throw any light on this? Instead of using COPY, does a blank disk need to be formatted, SYSGEN'ed and then all the files pip'ed over?
Any comments most welcome.
Tez
Many of the images I've got off Dave's excellent collection are non-bootable. The question is this? Can I execute a SYSGEN command from the CP/M system disk directed at these disks to make them bootable or will that damage files? I suspect the latter, but my web search for information seems ambiguous on this point. Some sites suggest this procedure doesn't damage existing files. SYSGEN'ing an existing disk created from a image will be much quicker than creating a blank formatted bootable disk then PIP'ing all the files to it.
A related question. Some of Dave's images are copies of the original bundled disks which came with the Kaypro II. Booting the disks gives you a message that these are originals, copies should be made and these ones should be stored in a safe place. Fair enough, but even if you make copy using the COPY command as instructed in the Kaypro II manual, the message still appears??? Can anyone throw any light on this? Instead of using COPY, does a blank disk need to be formatted, SYSGEN'ed and then all the files pip'ed over?
Any comments most welcome.
Tez