On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 07:23:34PM +0100, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > il.cybercable.fr> > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > User-Agent: Mutt/1.0i > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, Dec 20, 1999 > at 06:56:42PM +0100 > Resent-Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Resent-From: [email protected] > X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/76022 > X-Loop: [email protected] > Precedence: list > Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-UIDL: 20408 > Status: U > > On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 06:56:42PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > MK>> get IO.SYS to take up the first few sectors of the disk. > > MK> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > MK> This was needed in pre MS DOS 6.0 (or even 5.0) time. > > MK> > > MK>Now you need a proper boot (and maybe master boot) sector and (I'm not > > MK>shure) not fragmented IO.SYS ... > > MK> > > MK>Mirek > > > > IO.SYS is needed for WinSuck95. > > Yes it's needed but you said "first few sectors of the disk", > no just copy it into partition. > > Mirek > >
If I format a floppy in DOS, then just copy IO.SYS A:\ (and then
command.com), it boots. When I do the same under Linux, it won't. What I
need is to get a win9x hard drive partition bootable while running off a
Linux boot disk. It has been mentioned that I need a proper boot sector.
How exactly do I get it (i.e. what do I put in the bs= and count= fields
in dd, and do I use raw disk (sda) or partition(sda1), etc, etc?)
Sorry for being so dumb in this field... :)
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