Re: OT: Booting via Network

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On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Thomas Baumann wrote:

> Thanks for your reply. I can do this either. I use syslinux/memdisk 2.04.
> 
> But my actual problem is:
>   * how can I make a image (size e.g. 6MB) bootable for dos within linux ?
> 
> Thanks for any further help in advance.

Untested, but modelled on how I create filesystems for other purposes:

dd if=/dev/zero of=disk bs=1024 count=$$(6*1024))
mkfs.whatever disk
mount disk /mnt/floppy -o loop
<copy from wherever>

umount disk

Don't know offhand how to make it bootable, but with a bootable floppy
in /dev/fd0 this might work:
dd if=/dev/fd0 count=1 of=disk

I think this makes a disk image on the so-called superfloppy format the Fujitsu
utilities for my MO drive do it.



> 
> Thomas.
> 
> Zitat von John <red@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Thomas Baumann wrote:
> > 
> > > I've seen in the list that there are specialists who use
> > > Installing via PXE or similar. The Question I have is
> > > 
> > > How can I boot for example a freedos image with a size larger
> > > than 2.880 MB (with memdisk). 
> > > 
> > 
> > I have booted freedos and drdos both with pxe. The essential information
> > is in syslinux.doc, not pxelinux.doc!
> > 
> > _I_ used standard DOS floppy images, they don't need syslinux on them.
> > That function's performed by pxelinux which is what the bootrom loads.
> > 
> > I think there's an option too to boot hard disk images, but I've not
> > tried that.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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