That worked! I think my main problem was that I need to use a multiple of 720 or 144 in order to make it work properly.
I doubled your and now have a 12M image. Thanks, Joe =========================== Joseph R. Hoot Lead System Programmer/Analyst (w) 716-878-4832 (Office - Receptionist/able to leave message) (w) 716-878-4863 (Direct - no voicemail) (c) 716-759-HOOT joe.h...@itec.suny.edu GPG KEY: 7145F633 =========================== On Sep 16, 2011, at 10:40 AM, Alain Mouette wrote: > I have managed to do that with Eric's help. It is in the list archives: > > <http://www.mail-archive.com/freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net/msg10922.html> > > I made it for 6M (4x floppy size), other sizes are equaly possible > > Aain > > Em 16-09-2011 10:00, Hoot, Joseph escreveu: >> Hi all, >> >> I've been using a 4M disk image that has freedos on it for awhile now to do >> bios updates in my Dell iDRAC. I'm finally crossing the threshold of >> available space and need to create a new, larger, disk image. >> >> So what process would I go through to create this larger disk image? Here >> are some of the things that I've done so far from Linux: >> >> 1) dd if=/dev/zero of=disk20M.img bs=1m count=20 >> 2) mkdosfs on the disk20M.img >> 3) grabbed a FDOEM.144 img from the web and dd the boot sector off of it >> with the following: >> dd if=FDOEM.144 of=disk20M.img bs=1 count=446 seek=62 skip=62 >> conv=notrunc >> 4) mount -o loop disk20M.img /mnt<-- and then copy whatever EXE's and such >> that I wanted over to the disk. >> 5) umount the disk20M.img from /mnt >> 6) attempt to boot >> >> This process worked for me in the past, but I haven't been able to get it to >> work now that I'm increasing the disk to 20M >> >> Does anyone have any advise on trying to get this to work? >> >> Thanks, >> Joe >> >> =========================== >> Joseph R. Hoot >> Lead System Programmer/Analyst >> (w) 716-878-4832 (Office - Receptionist/able to leave message) >> (w) 716-878-4863 (Direct - no voicemail) >> (c) 716-759-HOOT >> joe.h...@itec.suny.edu >> GPG KEY: 7145F633 >> =========================== >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
