On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:04 PM, zongo saiba <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to make a bootable floppy disk image big enough to contain my > bios upgrade, flash utility and the fdos kernel in it. My bios upgrade > itself is 4M. > The one I originally created was of 144. Therefore too small to accomodate > the soft i needed to put put in it. > This is the process I have been using to create that boottable floopy image: > > $ mkdir /tmp/floppy > I am then mounting that image as such containing "fdos" with the "loop" file > system and vfat: > $ sudo mount -t vfat -o loop FDOEM.144 /tmp/floppy > Then I need to copy my bios update and the flash utility but this bios > update is 4M. The bootable image is only 1.4M. > > Could anyone tell me how to make that bootable image bigger ? > > Kind Regards, > > zongo >
You can make a 2880 KB image and see if your bios supports it via something like memdisk (part of syslinux). You probably won't be able to find hardware that actually supports real floppies that big, but it is a good way of stuffing things that large on to a CD or boot-menu. Of course if you're already going CD/boot menu you can look in to using cdrom drivers and the CD for storage, or just emulating a hard disk image. Using a USB flash drive is even easier since some modern BIOSes will emulate a hard disk over the native stick.
