On Wed, 04 Sep 2002 07:07, you wrote: > On Wed, 04 Sep 2002 00:29, Charles Curley wrote: > > Has anyone gotten tomsrtbt to boot directly from Mess-DOS without > > building a floppy? > > > > I have a laptop with no floppy drive and it doesn't boot to the > > CD-ROM, so that leaves a Mess-DOS boot. > > If it won't, it would be trivial to get it to. IIRC tomsrtbt loads > into RAM - will be much faster to load it off a HDD with Loaadlin > than a floppy. You could use the CD-ROM version with the extras too. > Google "ramfloppy" to see how someone else has done it.
I had to see if it would work. bunzip2 tomsrtbt-2.0.103.ElTorito.288.img.bz2 mount -o loop tomsrtbt-2.0.103.ElTorito.288.img /mnt/foo mkdir /mnt/dos/rtbt cp /mnt/foo/bz2bzImage /mnt/dos/rtbt/rtbt cp /mnt/foo/initrd.bz2 ~/initrd.bz2 bunzip2 ~/initrd.bz2 (might not need to, I don't recall wether or not the kernel can handle a bzip2 image, it can handle a gzipped one though. Anyhow once it's bunzip2ed, you can mount it on loopback & copy over any add-ons you want to the appropriate place - there's 1700 odd KB of spare space) cp ~/initrd /mnt/dos/rtbt/ cp loadlin.exe /mnt/dos/rtbt/ Boot DOS. cd \rtbt loadlin rtbt initrd=initrd root=/dev/ram0 rw Works for me. Haven't tested it much though. -- -WBD.
