On 17 Jul 2001, Christopher Keller wrote:
> Mike, that's for the info on multiple subscriptions. Was too blantantly
> obvious for me to see.
>
> Bero, the BIOS was it. I did realize that I forgot to actually mention
> the word BIOS in the update portion.
>
> I briefly looked over drdos (will test later), but it seemed that I
> needed a DOS/windows installation to unpack the tools and run them
> (DISKCOPY, SYS, etc) to actually create the DRDOS boot disk. Granted,
> once you do that the first time, you are pretty much MS free. I do have
> access to a windows box here at work that I can try DRDOS from, so i
> guess it's a moot point in the end. I'm just surprised that there isn't
> a reliable (non-beta) way to create a bootable MSDOS floppy from
> unix/linux; something like mkdosbootdsk....
>
> Or am I woefully misinformed?
>
You can use dd to make the DRDOS disks from the 3-1/2" disk images.
Each file is a 1.44M floppy image. Maybe they need Linux instructions
and/or a shell script to create the disks used?
There is a snag when it comes to making a DOS boot disk from Linux -
unless you are going to use openDOS, you run into copyright problems
because the files you need to write to the floppy to make it a DOS boot
disk. Now, if you have a bootable DOS disk, you can make an image file
from that disk using dd, and write it to a new disk the same way.
>
> Also, Mike, I looked at Tyan, but the only non-VIA motherboard I saw ws
> the dual CPU Thunder? Still debating whether or not I dislike VIA enough
> to purchase two new CPU's and a new motherboard.
>
>
Mikkel
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