k0d3g3ar
Experienced Member
Hi there, I recently got my newly acquired FreHD system working for my Model 4GA machine, and its great. And its working for the auto-boot ROM mod as well, so I'm stoked to have this up and running.
Now I'm trying to populate my machine with software. Lots of software. I did the customary Google search looking for sites with disk images to download, and although I found a bit, it seems a lot of folks who have posted software have shut down their servers, etc. Not sure if this is some sort of copyright thingy, but I'd be shocked if 30 yr old software copyrights are being policed. But I guess nothing would surprise me....
Anyway back to my question. I found the System80 Disk Images site from Tezza and its great. Lots of stuff there, so I grabbed what I could on my Linux Mint machine, copied the DSK files over to a SD Card and put it in the FreHD. Using VHDUTL (DIR) it sees the files, but when I attempt to mount them, its giving me the following error:
Mount failed
Error File/dir object invalid
Thinking that this might have something to do with copying the files from a Linux box to the SD card, I tried it on Windows. Same error.
The FreHD works fine, because I wouldn't be able to use it for booting if it didn't. But I just can't seem to see these files.
Thinking that maybe its got to do with which OS I'm booted into, I tried this with LSDOS, LDOS and NEWDOS and it seems to be the same error in each case.
Does anyone know what causes this error, or is the VHDUTL software open source and source code out there so I can scour through it to determine the cause of this error?
I'm probably doing something really basic here, but if anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears.
Thanks
K
Now I'm trying to populate my machine with software. Lots of software. I did the customary Google search looking for sites with disk images to download, and although I found a bit, it seems a lot of folks who have posted software have shut down their servers, etc. Not sure if this is some sort of copyright thingy, but I'd be shocked if 30 yr old software copyrights are being policed. But I guess nothing would surprise me....
Anyway back to my question. I found the System80 Disk Images site from Tezza and its great. Lots of stuff there, so I grabbed what I could on my Linux Mint machine, copied the DSK files over to a SD Card and put it in the FreHD. Using VHDUTL (DIR) it sees the files, but when I attempt to mount them, its giving me the following error:
Mount failed
Error File/dir object invalid
Thinking that this might have something to do with copying the files from a Linux box to the SD card, I tried it on Windows. Same error.
The FreHD works fine, because I wouldn't be able to use it for booting if it didn't. But I just can't seem to see these files.
Thinking that maybe its got to do with which OS I'm booted into, I tried this with LSDOS, LDOS and NEWDOS and it seems to be the same error in each case.
Does anyone know what causes this error, or is the VHDUTL software open source and source code out there so I can scour through it to determine the cause of this error?
I'm probably doing something really basic here, but if anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears.
Thanks
K