Hello everyone, I'm a linux user so please bear with me..I found that the easiest method of running freedos is using the fat image contained in the livecd (fdboot.img in /isolinux/data). I just drop it on my ext3 usb drive and boot with grub using memdisk. If I need to add anything, I just mount it and add to it. This is nice but, the image is a little to small. My question is how to make an image similar to fdboot.img but bigger?
I tried, by 'dd if=/dev/zero of=fdos.img bs=512 count=51200' which gives me a 25mb file Then I followed the guide here 'http://wiki.fdos.org/Installation/BootDiskCreateUSB' that uses makebootfat. Everything went without error but the image is un-mountable and un-bootable after running makebootfat.
"$file fdos.imgfdos.img: x86 boot sector; partition 1: ID=0x6, active, starthead 1, startsector 32, 51168 sectors, code offset 0x31"
compared to fdboot.img"fdboot: x86 boot sector, FREE-DOS BEta 0.9 Bootloader KERNEL.SYS, code offset 0x40, OEM-ID "FreeDOS ", sectors/cluster 2, root entries 112, sectors 720 (volumes <=32 MB) , Media descriptor 0xfd, sectors/FAT 2, serial number 0x1ce95c55, unlabeled, FAT (12 bit)"
I'm sure there is something simple I am missing. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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