How to create a 1680K Coyote floppy using only Windows

What will you need?

- If you have a Linux machine, download and use the Linux Floppy Creator Scripts from the Coyote site. You don't need this page.

or

- A high-quality blank floppy (This technique does not work with all diskettes, or with all diskette drives.)
- A WORKING 1440K (1.44MB) Coyote Linux floppy, generated any way (either Windows wizard or Linux scripts).
- The blank1680.exe program to generate blank 1680K-formatted disks. (Download it here)

How to:

1 - Let's assume that you've downloaded Coyote Linux Windows Disk Creator from the Coyote site and used it to create a 1440K Coyote Linux Disk. This disk is working but you want to add more packages to it, and think a 1680K disk would be fine.
2 - Create a temporary folder on the hard drive of any Windows machine.
3 - Insert your working Coyote disk into the PC's drive and copy all of the files to that temporary folder.
4 - Remove the original Coyote disk and put it in a safe place in case you need it again.
5 - Run the downloaded blank1680.exe. It will ask you for a disk. Insert the blank floppy and wait until it is formatted.
6 - Copy all files from temporary folder to the newly formatted floppy, except LDLINUX.SYS, which will be there already.
7 - Using any plain text editor (such as Notepad), open the file a:\syslinux.cfg.
8 - Navigate to the end of fourth line. You will find something like boot=/dev/fd0,vfat. Replace that with boot=/dev/fd0u1680,vfat
9 - Save the file, and close the editor.
10 - Try your new disk.

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Claudio Roberto Cussuol