On 17 Jul 2001 15:59:56 -0700, Christopher Keller wrote:
>
>
> http://www.bootdisk.com has a nice windows utilty to make a bootable
> disk from the downloadable DRDOS images. It doesn't go through the
> hassle of making the five floppies, it just makes the single bootdisk
> with autoexec,command.com and the system files. A linux version of this
> would be most appreciated. If one isn't already out there, I'll see what
> I can come up with.
Okay, as a followup to my post.
I've used dd to create an image from the DRDOS bootable floppy. I then
uuencoded this into a shell script which, upon execution, uudecodes and
the uses dd to write itself to a floppy. Result is a shell script that
creates a bootable dos disk. Of course, it's subject to those nasty
copyright things, so I probably shouldn't mail it out. I was thinking of
sending it to Caldera/DRDOS so they can put it on their download
section.
I think the best answer is to figure out how to extract the four files
(autoexec.bat, command.com, ibmbio.com, ibmdos.com) from the disk01.144
binary image they provide then write that to a floppy. I have absolutley
no clue as to how to hack apart the binary to find the right stuff. So,
unless some wily hacker wants to educate me, I'll send this off to the
DRDOS folks and consider it case closed for now.
--
Christopher Keller
Registered Linux User #215241 (http://counter.li.org/)
"What's the matter Colnel Sanders? Chicken?"
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