Re: [Freedos-user] newbie help: your time please :(

[Carl Spitzer]

On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 11:19 +0200, Andre Tertling wrote:
 Gildor Inglorion wrote:
  i am using linux and i downloaded the .img bootdisk
  image from the download page. 
  I don't know what to do with such file. I mounted it
  on a dir, then i mcpied its contents to a disk, but
  the disk couldn't boot
 
 The .img file represents a 1:1 image of the boot disk. You will have to 
 write it directly to a floppy, I am no linux guru, but I guess dd is a 
 decent tool to achieve this. You will want to read the man pages for dd 
 before trying anything :)
 
There is also a dd varient for use in a dos box in Win32 I recently
tested it in XP home edition.  Its command line is significantly
different so do the homework.

CWSIV




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Re: [Freedos-user] newbie help: your time please :(

[Ken Martwick]

In Linux, you can insert a blank floppy in the
first drive and issue the command:
dd if=???.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=2880
from the comman line, where ???.img is replaced by
the name of the img file you are using.
Ken Martwick

On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 09:59:26AM +0100, Gildor Inglorion wrote:
 i know that you talk mostly on hihg-level themes
 concerning freedos programming and such, and i think
 that newbie questions can easily be overlooked, but
 please, offer me some time because i need your help
 
 i am using linux and i downloaded the .img bootdisk
 image from the download page. 
 
 I don't know what to do with such file. I mounted it
 on a dir, then i mcpied its contents to a disk, but
 the disk couldn't boot
 
 i guess mounting and copying is not the proper way...
 what is it then?
 
 thanks for your time
 
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