On 17 Jul 2001, 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.
There is more to a bootable DOS disk than just formatting it and
copying files... The boot sector references io.sys/msdos.sys by
sector. (ibmbio.com, ibmdos.com)
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