Putting ADF's on floppy w/out a hard drive

[BGary335]

OK, I am using an A500 without a hard drive, but two floppy drives. I am trying to put ADF files on Amiga floppies. The method I've tried is to compress the ADF into an LHA, put the LHA on floppy, transfer the LHA from the PC floppy to an Amiga floppy on the Amiga side, then use LHA to extract the ADF onto another blank Amiga floppy. The problem I've run into is that every ADF file I've tried to extract this way comes out to 901KB, obvioulsy too large for a double density floppy. My question is, is there a method for getting ADF's onto floppies without a hard drive?

Any help would be appreciated!

[BGary335]

@amazing:

I tried that method, but the size of the ADF comes out to 901KB, which is too big for a floppy.

@madsjm:

I have the 512KB expansion card, so I suppose that would give me the necessary amount of RAM. If not, then I'll try the method you described-it may be cumbersome, but at least it'll get the job done!

[BGary335]

But ow can it write all of a 901KB file to a floppy? They only hold 834KB when formatted. I have my A500 extracting an ADF from a LHA archive at this moment. Its extracting directly to a floppy, and the process, I'm almost sure, will fail because the file is too big.

[BGary335]

That still doesn't solve anything because my floppy ahs only 834KB of space when formatted. So even an 880KB will not fit.

[BGary335]

@amazing

Got $300US?

@everyone else

The RAM seems to be my trouble right now. Here's what's going on: on the motherboard, it says 512K/1M, so I would imagine that I have no less than 512K. Then I have a 512K expansion card, which SHOULD give me a total of 1024K. But when I try to put an ADF file in RAM it tells me that the RAM drive is full before the operation completes. I don't get it.

[BGary335]

Anyone know anything about what Pete is talking about?

[BGary335]

Alright, I want to try DMS. I'm not too familiar with UAE though. Can someone give me a rundown of what I need to do?

[BGary335]

As I've said before, I haven't a null modem cable, so  that option isn't viable at this time.

[BGary335]

Let me clarify-I know WHAT Pete was suggesting, but I'm not sure how to go about doing that-and neither did he it seems. What I need to find out is just how to make such a boot disk.

[BGary335]

@motorollin

I'm using 2.1

@Pete

I will try that. Thanks for your help!

[BGary335]

I'm sure that PC2Amiga is excellent, but as I've said time and again, I don't have a cble, so its not an option for me at this point.

[BGary335]

About madsjm's UAE dms steps...is there a particular program on Aminet that can be used to unpack DMS files on the Amiga side?

[BGary335]

Good information. Thanks RW!!

EDIT: I'm a little worried about that diskspare.device. It's quite a hefty file...I hope I have enough room on the WB disk.  :-o

[BGary335]

Wow, RW your diskspare.device idea really worked! I was able to get an ADF onto a 960Kb floppy, and then using adf2disk I transferred it to another floppy, and that's it! However, during the adf2disk step I made a brutal mistake-I was a little tardy about getting my WB 2.1 disk out of the drive and putting a blank in, so I accidentally overwrote it. Anyone know any way of rescuing overwritten data?  :-D