Tandy DOS Install Issues

[Quagmire]

… wait, the thing that the Tandy 1000 versions of DOS complain if you try to run them on something else? The 1000 BIOS has Tandy specific strings in it, I’m sure the boot loader just looks for them.

Okay, I can see that. My point is moot.

 

[LoneBlackBear]

Sorry I think getting shorted and then doubled wrecked my brain for my reply, that and some 40%....
When I was updating to 6.22 on my t1000rlhd, it came with OG TDOS, Deskmate installed and with set of 720s.
I noticed I had to block sense hole on floppies to move them between PC and T1000.
If I didn't they wouldn't have "proper" mbr? and thus couldn't boot or be read.

That was years ago, I've got the beast up on the bench as we speak and I'll run a range of tests on it and post my results

 

[Eudimorphodon]

I noticed I had to block sense hole on floppies to move them between PC and T1000.
If I didn't they wouldn't have "proper" mbr? and thus couldn't boot or be read.

So far as I'm aware the RL only supports 720K floppies, so if you stick a floppy with a sense hole into it and format it you'll end up with a 1.44MB floppy with a 720K format on it, which will confuse the heck out a 1.44MB drive unless you cover the sense hole and fool it into thinking it's a 720K disk.

(This sort of confusion used to happen all the time with the first generation IBM PS/2s, because their floppy drives didn't use the sensor and would happily let users format disks the wrong way. Granted back then the more common problem was the PS/2 writing 1.44MB formats to 720K disks; if you wanted to read these on a generic PC a piece of tape wouldn't save you, you'd have to drill through the plastic or otherwise fake out your drive sensor.)

 

[LinkedBlade]

So, trying to adapt the 5.25" to a usb drive didn't work.

Now, by happenstance, have gotten a Compaq with an Athlon cpu. Conveniently has 3 ATA slots headers and runs XP. Hopefully that'll let me write some 5.25" floppies. Still trying to read up on the process to so this. Winimage, Dskimage and Rawwrite seem like options. Not sure exactly.

Otherwise i may try to get a 3.5" floppy drive in the Tandy.

Or worst case is I spoke to a guy on ebay who makes these 5.25 dos discs and put a listing up for tandy discs.
Tandy DOS 3.30 ebay link

 

[Eudimorphodon]

FWIW, you could just hack a Gotek with Flashfloppy, use it for the original install, and then go back to the physical floppy drive. Nobody says it needs to be permanent.

 

[LinkedBlade]

FWIW, you could just hack a Gotek with Flashfloppy, use it for the original install, and then go back to the physical floppy drive. Nobody says it needs to be permanent.

I'll keep that in mind. Trying to do the cheapest/familiar options first.