I downloaded a zip of all of the kickstart disks, I have a catweasel. I should be able to make an ADF file. The system churms a little on the kickstart disks I have, but they are of unknown status. Bill On Fri, Mar 12, 2021, 7:17 PM Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

Ethan Cant a person using and Amiga with a Gotek drive and a floppy drive, just Copy the Adf file to the Gotek drive and make a floppy disk? Including Kickstart and Workbench files?

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On Mar 12, 2021, at 6:55 PM, Ethan Dicks via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 4:50 PM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

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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.

-etha