creating QNX diskette images on a Wintel box

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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.

I’m sure the folks @ QSSL have the tool for this because the QNX demo
that we can download from the web is exactly the technology I seek.

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
downeast @ compuserve.com

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We have found the RawWrite utility that ships with various Linux
distributions to work with QNX disks. The only disadvantage that we found
is the inability to create self extracting disk images.

You can download the utility here:

http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite.htm


“j.t.peabody” <filer@mystery.net> wrote in message
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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.

I’m sure the folks @ QSSL have the tool for this because the QNX demo
that we can download from the web is exactly the technology I seek.

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
downeast @ compuserve.com

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Dear J.T.
We use a DOS utility called DITU - works ok from Win9x but not NT.

A search on the net for DITU DISK COPY will find some sites that you can
download from.

Simple and reliable.