You made a filesystem inside of a file....., not a whole hard drive. Does
this help you?
Drew Northup, N1XIM
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
> Of Uri Shohet
> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 3:56 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: How to set up harddisk image
>
>
> Hello all!
>
> I saw that Flex86 can run Windoze and decided to give it a try.
> My question is how to set up the Win95 harddisk image?
> Here's what I did for 300MB image:
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/d/imgfile bs=1024 count=307200
> # losetup /dev/loop0 /mnt/d/imgfile
> # mkfs -V -t msdos -v /dev/loop0
> # mkdir /mnt/winimg
> # mount -t vfat /dev/loop0 /mnt/winimg
>
> # Copy almost all c:\windows and c:\ directories contents to /mnt/winimg
>
> # umount /mnt/winimg/
> # losetup -d /dev/loop0
>
> I took conf/msdos file as an example:
>
> ------------------------8<---------------------
> # number of megabytes for vm
> memory = 4
> plugin = ./plugins/bochs/plugin-bochs.so
> bochs-opt boot: c
> #bochs-opt diskc: file="../../10M.vga", cyl=306, heads=4, spt=17
> bochs-opt diskc: file="/mnt/d/imgfile", cyl=900, heads=16, spt=63
> ------------------------8<---------------------
> Are the above settings correct for a 300MB image? ----^-----^----^--
>
> ------------------------8<---------------------
> #bochs-opt floppya: 1_44=../../1.44a, status=inserted
> bochs-opt keyboard_serial_delay: 200
> bochs-opt floppy_command_delay: 500
> bochs-opt vga_update_interval: 200000
> bochs-opt mouse: enabled=0
> bochs-opt private_colormap: enabled=0
> bochs-opt i440fxsupport: enabled=0
> bochs-opt newharddrivesupport: enabled=1
> bochs-opt ips: 1000000
> #bochs-opt time0: 938581955
> bochs-init
> # The system BIOS
> load-rom file=../bios/BIOS-plex86-2000_0817a address=0xf0000
> # The VGA BIOS
> load-rom file=../bios/VGABIOS-elpin-2.40 address=0xc0000
> # syntax for disassembly
> db_syntax = at&t
> # Maximum depth that the scan-before-execute code will try
> # to recursively prescan code in the current code page, by
> # following intra-page branches.
> prescan_depth = 3
> #prescan_depth = 1
> ------------------------8<---------------------
>
> When I run './plex86 -f plex86.conf.win' I get 'This is not a bootable
> disk. Please insert a bootable floppy and press any key to try again
> ...'
>
> What have I done wrong?
>
> TIA,
> Uri Shohet
> --
> Registered Linux User #166615 (http://counter.li.org)
>
