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Jean-Yves:
Hi,

I'm trying to create disk images of the retail copy of CA-Realizer 2.0 which I managed to buy recently. Amazingly I was able top copy over the files from all 7 installation diskettes.

For the diskette image, I downloaded the empty floppy image package from archive.org [1]

Initially I used the 2.88MB empty file but ArcaOS (in VirtualBox 7 on Linux) fails to read these. I get a "SYS0027: The drive cannot find the sector (area) requested." error when I try to go to A:

So I guess first question is - can ArcaOS read 2.88MB floppies?

Assuming not, I did then try to use the 1.44MB empty image but I was getting a not enough space error on disk4 (of 7).   What's the best way in Linux to copy the contents of a directory into a disk image file?

Incidentally, the way I copied the files from the diskettes was using a USB floppy drive and drag and dropping all files from the floppy into 7 directories on Zorin 17 Linux using the file manager (ie I did not use the terminal). 
(I know macOS adds all kinds of nonsense when copying files, which is why I did this in Linux.)
ls -al does not show anything added as far as I can tell.

Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks :)

[1] https://archive.org/details/blank-floppy-disks

ivan:
It sounds as if you need EMT4PM to create your disks.  That package did everything I needed with manipulating floppy disks and their images.  Now I have everything stored on a set of 2 tb disks.

Steven Levine:

The 2.88MB diskettes should be XDF format.  To read these, you need the XDF filter driver installed.  See:

  https://www.os2world.com/forum/index.php?topic=1902.0

I don't recall if the filter supported write operations.

RTAN:
Hi Jean-Yves,

Alternatively you could simply download the images directly from here:
https://archive.org/details/ca-realizer-2.0-for-windows-os2

I guarantee you that they're bit-for-bit identical to the floppy disks in the box... because this is exactly who you think it is!

Best,
Richard.

Jean-Yves:
Ahah!  Well that’s good news.

Thanks Richard  ;)

Ivan, Steven, many thanks for that info. All good to know.

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