On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 4:50 PM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Thanks Ethan. Is there a way to use an Amiga to make a kickstart disk, kind of like how a MS DOS machine can SYS.COM a diskette to move the system files to it and make it bootable i.e. format /s/v)?
There's no complex structure to a Kickstart disk like there is to a bootable floppy, not even a "bootblock", let alone a filesystem. IIRC, it's just a raw block dump with some sort of Kickstart signature in the first block. No code from the Kickstart disk is executed at boot time. I've always just copied existing, working Kickstart disks, but apparently there's an Amiga tool WriteKickDisk that will take a ROM file and write it to the correct sectors to make a fresh Kickstart disk. https://lateblt.tripod.com/a1k_kick.htm I have not tried this, but the instructions seem to be reasonable. -ethan