Re: [Freedos-user] remastering cd iso under Linux?

2005-02-04 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Michael schreef: I have a CD ISO image I keep of useful free software programs for Windows. I was wanting to use the spare space on the discs to make a FreeDOS (and maybe Memtest) rescue disc. I've downloaded the FreedOS CD ISO. Do I just copy this ISO to a directory and copy the files from my

Re: [Freedos-user] remastering cd iso under Linux?

2005-02-04 Thread kd4d
Good day: You do not HAVE to use the SYSLINUX loader. I've been successful using the El Torito standard (with 1.44 or 2.88 MByte) boot sectors on CD's. The trick is getting a proper floppy disk image file. I did it this way because I've also been fiddling with MS-DOS boot CD's and haven't

Re: [Freedos-user] remastering cd iso under Linux?

2005-02-04 Thread Bernd Blaauw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: You do not HAVE to use the SYSLINUX loader. I've been successful using the El Torito standard (with 1.44 or 2.88 MByte) boot sectors on CD's. The trick is getting a proper floppy disk image file. That's correct. There are several bootloaders, and ofcourse there's

Re: [Freedos-user] remastering cd iso under Linux?

2005-02-04 Thread Michael
I have a CD ISO image I keep of useful free software programs for Windows. I was wanting to use the spare space on the discs to make a FreeDOS (and maybe Memtest) rescue disc. I've downloaded the FreedOS CD ISO. Do I just copy this ISO to a directory and copy the files from my other ISO into

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS mirror (Portugal)

2005-02-04 Thread Jim Hall
Jim Hall wrote: Does anyone know who owns the http://chefax.fe.up.pt/freedos.html mirror site? This is over a month old, but I don't have the contact info for the owner. I'll take this site off the mirror list later this week if I don't hear from the owner. And now this site seems to be

Re: [Freedos-user] remastering cd iso under Linux?

2005-02-04 Thread Michael
Also, does the cd image come with memtest or do I need to do something to add that? It looks like it's supposed to be there, from reading the docs, but I don't seem to be able to load it from the boot menu. -- Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kavlon.org

Re: [Freedos-user] remastering cd iso under Linux?

2005-02-04 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Michael schreef: Also, does the cd image come with memtest or do I need to do something to add that? It looks like it's supposed to be there, from reading the docs, but I don't seem to be able to load it from the boot menu. you need to add the Memtest86+ binary (www.memtest.org) to the Isolinux

[Freedos-user] Announce: FDAPM with ACPI, PCISLEEP

2005-02-04 Thread Eric Auer
Hi all, I am proud to announce a double-update: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/pcisleep-03feb2005.zip and http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/fdapm-04feb2005.zip Features: PCISLEEP - scans your PCI bus and shows device information like: bus.device(.function)

Re: [Freedos-user] remastering cd iso under Linux?

2005-02-04 Thread Michael
you need to add the Memtest86+ binary (www.memtest.org) to the Isolinux directory yourself. Be sure to remove the .bin extension from the Mt86+ binary. This is because Isolinux interprets it as a 'cd bootsector' which it is not. The Memtest+ binary currently is only delivered with the special