An AppleScript, Make Debian Floppy, is available for burning floppies from the provided disk image files. It can be downloaded from . To use it, just unstuff it on your desktop, and then drag any floppy image file to it. You must have Applescript installed and enabled in your extensions manager. Disk Copy will ask you to confirm that you wish to erase the floppy and proceed to write the file image to it. You can also use the MacOS utility Disk Copy directly, or the freeware utility suntar. The root.bin file is an example of a floppy image. Use one of the following methods to create a floppy from the floppy image with these utilities. If you are creating the floppy image from files which were originally on the official &debian; CD, then the Type and Creator are already set correctly. The following Creator-Changer steps are only necessary if you downloaded the image files from a Debian mirror. Obtain Creator-Changer and use it to open the root.bin file. Change the Creator to ddsk (Disk Copy), and the Type to DDim (binary floppy image). The case is sensitive for these fields. Important: In the Finder, use Get Info to display the Finder information about the floppy image, and X the File Locked check box so that MacOS will be unable to remove the boot blocks if the image is accidentally mounted. Obtain Disk Copy; if you have a MacOS system or CD it will very likely be there already, otherwise try . Run Disk Copy, and select Utilities Make a Floppy , then select the locked image file from the resulting dialog. It will ask you to insert a floppy, then ask if you really want to erase it. When done it should eject the floppy. Obtain suntar from . Start the suntar program and select Overwrite Sectors... from the Special menu. Insert the floppy disk as requested, then hit &enterkey; (start at sector 0). Select the root.bin file in the file-opening dialog. After the floppy has been created successfully, select File Eject . If there are any errors writing the floppy, simply toss that floppy and try another. Before using the floppy you created, set the write protect tab! Otherwise if you accidentally mount it in MacOS, MacOS will helpfully ruin it.