On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, David wrote: > is it possible to create a bootable msdos disk from a standard RH or Suse > distro? Everyone assumes that you have a DOS disk to hand, or a windows > box to create one on.
Search for FreeDos, a lot of distro's come with it these days, or at least it goes hand-in-hand with dosemu (the DOS emulator). The FreeDOS package should include an image of some sort, possibly a hard disk one. If it's the hard disk one then you'll have to actually run dosemu and do "format a: /s". About the best you can do under linux per-se is format & put a filesystem on it with:- fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 mkdos /dev/fd0 but that won't be bootable. -- ---<GRiP>--- Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz Answering Machine/fax: 02 4950 1194 (wait 5 mins if no answer) Mobile: 0408 686 201 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
