creating QNX diskette images on a Wintel box

I am looking for a program(s) that will permit me to create images of
bootable and non-bootable 1.44M diskettes. I would like to then ship the
images to clients via email. The clients would run a program on a Wintel
box that would create a QNX-image diskette that could be used in a QNX
box.

I have tried WinImage, for example. It will read the QNX disk (I have
not tried bootable diskettes yet) and write a good QNX diskette. The
problem is that it will not correctly store the image that it has
captured, so I can not send the image to a client who is running
WinImage. WinImage Professional also will not create a QNX diskette
image EXE file. The purpose of such a program is to allow me to ship an
exe to my clients who are not running WinImage. They simply run the exe
and a diskette is created with the correct image. Works with a handful
of other OSs, not QNX.

In summary I’d like to:
create a diskette on my QNX box
take it to my Wintel box
run a program that creates an image
ship the image to a client, who then produces a QNX diskette

alternatively, run a program on the QNX box that produces an images that
a program running on a Wintel box use to produce a QNX diskette

Rich Messeder
Down East Engineering

Hi J.T !

In the Linux world, we use a utility called rawrite to do this.
The rawrite utility exists for both Linux and Windows and is free (both cost
and source).

The utility can be found (binary code) on any Linux distribution disc.

Perhaps this could work better for you ??

Regards,
Joachim Holst

“j.t.peabody” wrote:

I am looking for a program(s) that will permit me to create images of
bootable and non-bootable 1.44M diskettes. I would like to then ship the
images to clients via email. The clients would run a program on a Wintel
box that would create a QNX-image diskette that could be used in a QNX
box.

I have tried WinImage, for example. It will read the QNX disk (I have
not tried bootable diskettes yet) and write a good QNX diskette. The
problem is that it will not correctly store the image that it has
captured, so I can not send the image to a client who is running
WinImage. WinImage Professional also will not create a QNX diskette
image EXE file. The purpose of such a program is to allow me to ship an
exe to my clients who are not running WinImage. They simply run the exe
and a diskette is created with the correct image. Works with a handful
of other OSs, not QNX.

In summary I’d like to:
create a diskette on my QNX box
take it to my Wintel box
run a program that creates an image
ship the image to a client, who then produces a QNX diskette

alternatively, run a program on the QNX box that produces an images that
a program running on a Wintel box use to produce a QNX diskette

Rich Messeder
Down East Engineering

“Joachim Holst” <joachim.holst@obducat.com> wrote in message
news:3BF37AF6.D6DAE517@obducat.com

in QNX world we use utility “cp” like:

cp /dev/fd0 /tmp/image.dat

perhaps it can work also :slight_smile:

Hi J.T !

In the Linux world, we use a utility called rawrite to do this.
The rawrite utility exists for both Linux and Windows and is free (both
cost
and source).

The utility can be found (binary code) on any Linux distribution disc.

Perhaps this could work better for you ??

Regards,
Joachim Holst

“j.t.peabody” wrote:

// wbr

ian zagorskih wrote:

in QNX world we use utility “cp” like:

Problem is, cp doesn’t verify the image, rawrite or dd do :slight_smile:.
However, cp works in Linux to. Believe it does on all Unix based systems.

cp /dev/fd0 /tmp/image.dat

perhaps it can work also > :slight_smile:

Hi J.T !

In the Linux world, we use a utility called rawrite to do this.
The rawrite utility exists for both Linux and Windows and is free (both
cost
and source).

The utility can be found (binary code) on any Linux distribution disc.

Perhaps this could work better for you ??

Regards,
Joachim Holst

“j.t.peabody” wrote:

// wbr

You can also download ‘makedisk.exe’ from:

http://quics.qnx.com/cgi-bin/search/usr/free/?srch=makedisk&submit=submit&select=1

which also does the same thing as rawrite

When I do this, I will use dd to create the image (check out docs on
how to do this), then format a floppy on a dos system, then use
make disk to create the floppy.

Erick.


Joachim Holst <joachim.holst@obducat.com> wrote:

Hi J.T !

In the Linux world, we use a utility called rawrite to do this.
The rawrite utility exists for both Linux and Windows and is free (both cost
and source).

The utility can be found (binary code) on any Linux distribution disc.

Perhaps this could work better for you ??

Regards,
Joachim Holst

“j.t.peabody” wrote:

I am looking for a program(s) that will permit me to create images of
bootable and non-bootable 1.44M diskettes. I would like to then ship the
images to clients via email. The clients would run a program on a Wintel
box that would create a QNX-image diskette that could be used in a QNX
box.

I have tried WinImage, for example. It will read the QNX disk (I have
not tried bootable diskettes yet) and write a good QNX diskette. The
problem is that it will not correctly store the image that it has
captured, so I can not send the image to a client who is running
WinImage. WinImage Professional also will not create a QNX diskette
image EXE file. The purpose of such a program is to allow me to ship an
exe to my clients who are not running WinImage. They simply run the exe
and a diskette is created with the correct image. Works with a handful
of other OSs, not QNX.

In summary I’d like to:
create a diskette on my QNX box
take it to my Wintel box
run a program that creates an image
ship the image to a client, who then produces a QNX diskette

alternatively, run a program on the QNX box that produces an images that
a program running on a Wintel box use to produce a QNX diskette

Rich Messeder
Down East Engineering

Thanks to all for the rapid suggestions. I used
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=image.dat bs=512
Then copied the file to a Wintel partition and ran makedisk. Appeared to work great!
Thanks again to everyone!
Rich

Hardware Support Account wrote:

You can also download ‘makedisk.exe’ from:

http://quics.qnx.com/cgi-bin/search/usr/free/?srch=makedisk&submit=submit&select=1

which also does the same thing as rawrite

When I do this, I will use dd to create the image (check out docs on
how to do this), then format a floppy on a dos system, then use
make disk to create the floppy.

Erick.

Joachim Holst <> joachim.holst@obducat.com> > wrote:
Hi J.T !

In the Linux world, we use a utility called rawrite to do this.
The rawrite utility exists for both Linux and Windows and is free (both cost
and source).

The utility can be found (binary code) on any Linux distribution disc.

Perhaps this could work better for you ??

Regards,
Joachim Holst

“j.t.peabody” wrote:

I am looking for a program(s) that will permit me to create images of
bootable and non-bootable 1.44M diskettes. I would like to then ship the
images to clients via email. The clients would run a program on a Wintel
box that would create a QNX-image diskette that could be used in a QNX
box.

I have tried WinImage, for example. It will read the QNX disk (I have
not tried bootable diskettes yet) and write a good QNX diskette. The
problem is that it will not correctly store the image that it has
captured, so I can not send the image to a client who is running
WinImage. WinImage Professional also will not create a QNX diskette
image EXE file. The purpose of such a program is to allow me to ship an
exe to my clients who are not running WinImage. They simply run the exe
and a diskette is created with the correct image. Works with a handful
of other OSs, not QNX.

In summary I’d like to:
create a diskette on my QNX box
take it to my Wintel box
run a program that creates an image
ship the image to a client, who then produces a QNX diskette

alternatively, run a program on the QNX box that produces an images that
a program running on a Wintel box use to produce a QNX diskette

Rich Messeder
Down East Engineering