This has been discussed before, but I think you might try to first get the disk to boot a basic verion of DOS. Try formatting it and just getting to a boot prompt. Then you can use syslinux to initialize the disk to boot the files. I would assume that the .bin can be mounted similar to a iso file, mount -o loop filename.bin /mnt/cdrom then you would only need to copy the files from the mount point to the Compact Flash. Something similar to the below
(assuming /dev/sdb1 has already been formatted as a ms-dos partition) mount -o oxygen.bin /mnt/cdrom syslinux /dev/sdb1 mount -t msdos /dev/sdb1 /mnt/dom cp /mnt/cdrom/* /mnt/dom sync umount /dev/sdb1 umount oxygen.bin I'm not familiar w/ the oxygen release, but assuming that it follows the same basic lines as the dachstein release, this should work. However, are you able to use the CF card as a drive with any type of host/guest program? Or is it similar to using an LPT Port Based ZipDrive? joey -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Ondzes Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 9:49 AM To: leaf Subject: [leaf-user] (no subject) I have a compact flash to ide converter board and would like to put a copy of Oxygen on a CF card and use the board to boot but I am not exactly sure how. I have connected my compact flash to my linux system via a SanDisk usb writer (SDDR-31) and the system sees it as /dev/sdb. I downloaded the latest Oxygen .bin file and I tried using dd to write it dd if=oxygen.bin of=/dev/sdb When I print the partition table with fdisk it doesn't look right; fdisk complains about different physical and logical endings and about partitions not ending on a cylinder boundry. What am I doing wrong ? Is it even possible to get the image to a cf card ? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
