On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Piet van Unen wrote:
>>Dear Tom,
>
>I would like to make a running MS-Dos or W95 system at partition 1 of a box with
>several partitions.There is no floppy-disk!!! One of the partions is tomsrtbt on
>harddisk. I can communicate with this partition and the box via an ethernet card and
>a tomsrtbt floppy on another box.
>I can prepare partition 1 by making a dos filesystem, but how can I start dos from
>it? I would like to have an image of a running dos or windows and put it via the
>ethernet on partiion 1. It would be nice to put a start disk from W95 on this
>partition.
>Can you help me to solve this problem?
You need a Bootabele partition on a other PC which is smaller or the same size
of your targetpartition (if possible hda1 to reduce possible problems). Then you
can copy this partition with dd and netcat. Now you can start the dos-bootblock
at boot about lilo in the Masterbootrecord.
I hope you have a emergency-bootcd.
I use this additional lines in /etc/lilo.conf to boot dos on hda1
# DOS bootable partition config begins
other = /dev/hda1
label = dos
table = /dev/hda
# DOS bootable partition config ends
>
>--Piet
>
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