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Andrew Langdon-Davies wrote:
> 
> All my attempts to run make_fd fail at the 2nd 
> floppy format stage. 2mf gives 'general failure 
> - incorrect density?' 

The BL2 filesystem image is too big to fit on a 
standard 1.44mb floppy disk, so a special format 
(2mf) is used.  It formats an ordinary floppy disk
to 1.8mb.

> and floppy is rendered unreadable. 

It is unreadable in standard DOS.  You need to execute 
2mb first.  That gives DOS the ability to see 1.8mb
floppies.

> I have another machine running Linux/Win95 which I am 
> using for downloads and for preparing floppies

Different floppy drives can have different alignments.  If 
you write a floppy on one drive and read it on a different
drive, there can be problems retrieving the data.  This is 
more likely to occur with 1.8mb floppies.

I suggest you try BL1.  It has a smaller filesystem, which
fits on a 1.44mb floppy.  It does not use 2mf.

Cheers,
Steven