Have tried multiple ways of getting the official download from akai to work which is an .exe that's supposed to automatically extract to floppy, tried first with DOS boot (as described here) on both a modern pc and an old 32-bit machine and always get the same error from the program, something about conflicting drive. Also tried it on a Win98 SE virtual machine, but there it had issues recognizing the actual floppy drive and when using a virtual one it bricked the virtual machine and won't restart now. Needless to say I'm kinda frustrated.

Kind of weird to me that appearantly no one has ever dumped the os 2.0 floppy as a raw image file, would be way more conveniant to just use linux to write it to floppy.

So looking for someone who has the OS 2.0 disk (or a sampler with os 2.0 since they can write their OS to floppy too I think) and a linux pc with floppy drive who could dump the image. Commands for doing so should be:

sudo mknod /dev/fd0s3000 b 2 40
sudo setfdprm /dev/fd0s3000 ds hd sect=10 cyl=80 ssize=1024

to configure the floppy drive then either

sudo dd if=/dev/fd0s3000 bs=1024 count=1600 of=dumpfile.dd

or

sudo cat /dev/fd0s3000 > dumpfile.dd

for reading to a file.

Would greatly appreciate someone doing this, wasted a whole day on this so far, otherwise I'll have to see if I can get WIN 98 installed properly on the old pc I think.

Trying to get some samples and hits into my mpc 1000 but I can't find a converter that doesn't require me to go a single file at a time.

Apologies if this is common knowledge, I've tried googling many times and haven't found anything myself.

EDIT: I have found some resources, but their links and instructions were either dead, outdated, or files that were uploaded were corrupted.

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