Re: [MiNT] Diskette Image Mounting

["Michael Bernstein" <mint@mbernstein.de>]

Hi John,

> Is there any provision in Mint to allow diskette images in any format to 
> be mounted as drive A:?

I had a similar idea a few years ago. After a wrote a small software
to access such images and copy from/to such images i had to idea to
mount these images. To avoid to much work by my own i had the idea
to use MetaDOS (or under mint a .xdd). But my work was a little bit
frozen because there was no FAT driver for MetaDOS and some other
interests in the last year.

The bios driver (without disk change) is present. Maybe i can make a
try with BetaDOS. But use the driver with MetaDOS was also nice because
MetaDOS has a .slb loader.

But i dont know if it is possible to map such a drive to A: if no
physical floppy was present.

I would like to continue with this driver. Maybe it is a nice extension
for the Coldfire.

> Due to the declining reliability and availability of floppy diskettes 
> and new Atari compatible floppy drives, ...
> The main reason for this specific need is for use with programs 
> distributed on installation diskettes, ...

Is there really any need? I had made a big backup session from floppys
to CDs of all my atari software. But in the first stage i copied only
the contents of my disks and of my harddisk from my TT. The second
stage will make disk images of all my original disks. But i think, to
install software on a new atari (compatible) i can use the backup of
my installed software from my TT. It is not like windows with parts
of the software (.dll) in /windows/system32 folder and information in
registry.

Best regards
Michael