Re: [Freedos-user] newbie help: your time please :(
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 --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] newbie help: your time please :(
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 > > __ > ?? Yahoo!; > ?? ?? ?? (spam); ?? Yahoo! Mail ??? > ?? ? ??? ??? ? > http://mail.yahoo.gr > > > --- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. > Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very > own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php > ___ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] newbie help: your time please :(
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 :) Kind regards, Andre --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
