> > Nevertheless it would be possible to make this distribution. But there > > are a lot of things that have to be figured out. A basic problem: Do we > > use a Windows/DOS or a Linux/Unix system for extracting the files from > > Windows and for building the new system. > > The following functions need further inspection: > > > > What boot system to use? Booting from a Windows CD is possible, but > > building a new bootable CD is better. The ERD could be used. > > If we only have Linux how can we build this ERD. The necessary file are > > installed with Windows in the directory EBD and should be somewhere in > > the CAB files on the Windows CD. Copy them to disk is easy, but how to do > > a "sys a:" from within Linux? > > Well, I booted Dos 7 (from 98se) on my hard drive with Dosemu 1.1.5 as > root and executed "sys c: a:". And the resulting boot disk works! You > will need a working Dos installed, though. Or at least a boot floppy.
Nice idea! Perhaps it is possible to execute MS-DOS "sys" with some tricks without installing a complete 98SE... It would be nice to have small a Linux prog to do the same, but booting the Win98SE cd with dosemu would be a solution if this cannot be done. Seems to be the only real problem I face in this project...... I believe I found it! On the win98se cd I found in tools/mtsutil/fat32ebd/ the MS-DOS tool that does exactly what I want to do without using "sys". Seems like image.dsk "formats" and "sys's" a floppy be simply doing a cat image.dsk > /dev/fd0 I will reboot and test it after sending this mail ;-) > > Can we access CAB files from within Linux at all? I have not searched for > > a tool by now... > > You can extract cabs with extract.exe (from windir\command, or it can be > found on the windows install cd, too). Seems to work perfectly with both > Dosemu and Wine under Linux. I found a really cool Linux tool called cabextract (http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/cabextract.php3). I can extract the complete Win98SE CABs from cd! But that's also the problem. I can only extract everything. I wrote an e-mail to the author requesting a possibility to specify the files to be extracted. Jochen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
