Hi Mark, actually no FreeDOS distro has used harddisk images yet. The mkisofs command shown below does not use any image at all. Instead, it uses "no emul boot" to load isolinux, and this then loads a compressed diskette image into a memdisk ramdisk and boots it. Compared to using a classic diskette image boot, you can write temp files to the memdisk. It should be equally compatible as your method, and you are right that harddisk images would be less compatible.
> One day, I wrote up a rather detailed set of instructions for doing > this and customizing it. The big difference is that I use a floppy > disk image to boot - it seems to work in more computers than the > hard disk image, Anyway, you can look at > http://k1ea.com/hints/Creating_a_Bootable_DOS_CD_V%201.5.pdf > > mkisofs -R -D -V "FreeDOS 1.0b" -o /tmp/fdbasecd-remastered.iso -b \ > > ./isolinux/isolinux.bin -c ./isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot \ > > -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table ./ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
