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New Message How can I get the Jailbait image onto my CF card from my Macintosh? (modified 0 times) Excarnate

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I have an IA-1, a 48 MB USB enabled CF card (Lexmark, with the Jumpshot cable), various Macintosh computers, Mac OS 7 through X. I have the latest image from Rasmus (thanks!). I have Virtual PC/Dos and have made a bootable drive image that will fit on my card.
But how can I write this image? Or set up the card so I can copy over the appropriate files?
DiskCopy doesn't seem to want to work (but I haven't exhusted all possiblities), Toast only wants to recognize CD disc images. What to do so I can get this going?

01-02-2002 18:38:58

New Message RE:How can I get the Jailbait image onto my CF card from my Macintosh? (modified 0 times) erroneus

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Okay, now there is a good argument for the "let's create an IA-1 oriented approach to loading the IA-1 with Linux."
The approach I mentioned could also be used to facilitate backups of the system as well.

01-02-2002 18:58:35

New Message RE:How can I get the Jailbait image onto my CF card from my Macintosh? (modified 0 times) kieran

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Well if you have OS-X on your Mac, shouldn't be a problem. Just
fire up an old fashioned xterm and:
1- find out what disk drive OS-X thinks the blank flash is loaded in
(my linux box thinks it's /dev/hde)
2- in an xterm window goto directory containing the img file:
cd /some-director-path
3- in the same xterm window (fixing "whaterver..." with your fully qualified
path for the flash card):
dd if=linux-3.img of="whatever the raw disk is called for the flash card"
so on my notebook (under rh7.2) it's: dd if=linux.img of=/dev/hde
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- My opinions are my own, my employer doesn't own this account.
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01-02-2002 19:54:17

New Message RE:How can I get the Jailbait image onto my CF card from my Macintosh? (modified 0 times) Excarnate

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I've been unable to find a way to get it done, however I'm trying these ways:
1. I have a Kodak digital camera that uses DOS format. I hex edited it to match as best I could determine to a PC Exchange bootable DOS (virtual) drive. I got as far as I/O Error
2. I have a friend who writes device drivers and file systems who may make a "simple" program to blast data from said PC Exchange bootable DOS "drive" to my compact flash.
3. I have a coworker with a PC laptop with a PC card slot, I have a CF to PC card adaptor, so that may work.
What doesn't work is Mac OS X because on my portable I don't have a PC card, I use the Jumpshot (Lexar's USB CF adaptor, nifty).
What also doesn't work is trying to get image files to write using Disk Copy.
What I wish I had was a disk image program that was liberal in what it would read and would be liberal in what it would write to. *sigh*

01-07-2002 18:13:01

New Message RE:How can I get the Jailbait image onto my CF card from my Macintosh? (modified 0 times) odie

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I got my IA-1 up and running just fine with my Macintosh G4 using VPC 5.0 running Windows 98se... Used the good 'ol Zio! USB-to-CF adaptor with a 32MB CF card (Microtech).
I used the "part" and "dolly" method to actually to the dirty work.
Be sure to do this in OS 9! Part, as well as other software, locks up Windows when accessing the Zio! in OS X (10.1.2). But everything ran smoothly in OS 9 (The real McCoy, not classic).
Word to Rasmus.

01-07-2002 22:05:28

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