Package files into a blank formatted image

[barbeque]

Often I'll have something like a loose bunch of files (lzh archive) that I want to install on the computer (e.g. P88SR).

Right now, my technique is:

1. Get a working HDM
2. Make a copy
3. Mount the copy
4. Delete all the files from the mounted HDM
5. Copy my files into the HDM
6. Repeat if I have too many files for one disk
7. Convert the HDMs to FDIs and put them on the USB stick to be mounted

This is a lot of annoying repetitive stuff, and a computer is supposed to be good at doing annoying repetitive stuff. So let's make the computer do it.

• Figure out what a FAT filesystem actually looks like on one of these images
• Make a variation of the make_blank_fdi.py code that creates a blank image with a filesystem
• Copy in the files into the filesystem (maybe FATPy can help?)
• Convert the resulting disk into fdi and present it