From: philo@privacy.net   
      
   On 6/20/24 2:08 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:   
   > On 6/20/24 13:58, philo wrote:   
   >> OTOH if I use Virtual Box to make a floppy image, that is something I   
   >> can mount. The problem is , it's impossible to write to   
   >   
   > It seems to me like you may have multiple things working against you.   
   >   
   > My experience has been that VirtualBox (along with some other   
   > hypervisors) want to be able to understand what's on the disk (image).   
   > Meaning you can't just use them as a raw storage device holding   
   > whatever.  You need to use a file system that VirtualBox understands.   
   >   
   > The next issue you'll likely run into is that the software inside of the   
   > VM may not know how to work with that same format.  --  I wouldn't bet a   
   > gas station cup of coffee that Xenix would understand a FAT-12 file   
   > system used on DOS (compatible OS) floppy disks.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
      
   Agreed.   
      
   When I was working on that SCO server, I wanted to get data off it but   
   there was no other OS I had that could read HTFS   
      
   I did format a floppy on it but it could not be read from my Windows   
   machine so I agree SCO probably does not know FAT-12   
      
   There was too much data to retrieve to use floppies>   
      
   The guy who built it (who was in another state) talked me through doing   
   essentially a tape back up onto another partition, then restoring it to   
   my Linux machine.   
      
      
   Anyway, this is pretty much a moot point because using floppies is   
   really nothing I'd do other that simply to experiment.   
      
      
   OT but BTW, I got a good laugh today.   
      
   I went to get a driver off the Asus site and it was a zip file.   
      
   That's normal and no big deal even for a novice used.   
      
   When I unzipped it, I got a good laugh...the file was a .rar   
      
   At this point a novice user would probably not to too happy   
      
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