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Offline Niding

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Re: Has anyone installed BetterWB 4.0 from scratch?
« Reply #14 from previous page: September 30, 2015, 05:46:03 PM »
Thats why I just ordered a Gotek USB device today. When I was installing BetterWB 4 of my floppies greeted me with Checksum errors.
 

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Re: Has anyone installed BetterWB 4.0 from scratch?
« Reply #15 on: September 30, 2015, 06:05:06 PM »
I think I'm going to clean and lube my drives and try some of those disks again.  I wonder if FFS has better error checking than OFS on floppies.  Can floppies be mapped for errors and given new life with another file system?  PFS?

This would probably be useless when writing disk images.  Maybe your notion of a .LHA archive (from my DMS post) is a good alternative.
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Re: Has anyone installed BetterWB 4.0 from scratch?
« Reply #16 on: September 30, 2015, 06:26:50 PM »
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Maybe your notion of a .LHA archive (from my DMS post) is a good alternative.

I hate .dms and .adf with a passion.  Why the H-E-double-hockeysticks are we still using floppy images in 2015?  IMHO every piece of modern software should be distributed as an .lha with an Installer.  But maybe that's just me.  ;)
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