Kaypro 2x with a Gotek

[kurt_kayger]

Hi,
I can remember that before I switched to two Gotek drives,
I made the system trace with sysgen from the floppy drive.

Kurt

https://retrocmp.de/kaypro/kay-p2_hrdw.htm#mb-2X

 

[tradde]

Are you saying you updated your Gotek with the "debug" version that logs to the USB stick? I have considered doing this myself.

 

[durgadas311]

If you can boot off the floppy with the gotek as B, and your boot floppy has PUTSYS.COM, then you should be able to "sysgen" a gotek image in "drive B", and then flip back to the gotek as drive A and boot.

 

[tradde]

I can and have installed the Gotek as B and booted off A. This is how I know some of the images on it are good as I have run some of the programs. I do not know if my boot floppy has PUTSYS.COM or not. Will have to check. Thanks. So I would need to have a blank images in the Gotek to do this? Or will it create everything? Oh, you mean to have the image I have tried to boot but was not able to boot and it should make it bootable. Got it. I think that is what you mean.

 

[durgadas311]

Yes, the "sysgen" process (on most CP/M's, including Kaypro) is independent of files stored on the disk. You could take a WordStar distro disk and "sysgen" it to make it bootable (although that was not recommended in the old days, as one wanted to keep the distro diskettes "pristine").

 

[tradde]

That worked. Thank you so much.