Soeren Kuklau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > memdisk is a tool that loads images into memory and emulates them as > volumes, I presume?
Correct. > We have one of those "SuperDisk" USB drives which also mount > floppies (I never worked with them though). Whether the BIOS accepts > those as floppy, though, is another question. That is why I suggested upgrading the BIOS. On the Inspiron 8500, the most recent BIOS (1-2 months old) includes all sorts of fixes related to USB floppy drives. If your BIOS can boot from the USB floppy, that might mean memdisk will work from the CD-ROM. (Or it might not; I have not actually tried...) In any event, you should be able to boot a physical floppy that way. > Is memdisk an open-source project, or is it an old tool from > Microsoft? It is part of SYSLINUX (http://syslinux.zytor.com/), which is open source. > If the former, surely there's a way to use Y: or something instead? The problem is that memdisk is the boot disk. I vaguely recall that some BIOSes always designate the boot disk to be "disk 1", which means that fdisk.exe would operate on the ramdisk by default. Also, some of my code hard-wires references to the A: drive. (This is poor design; I was lazy). I doubt there is any way to get an emulated hard drive to appear as A:. Fixing this is not hard, it will just take a little work to make autoexec.bat and install.pl flexible enough to deal with different boot media. This should also make it easier to support Bart's boot disk or Linux-based installs, so I will probably do it eventually. Let me know if the USB floppy works. I will look into using hard drive emulation this weekend, although I cannot promise it will make it into this next release. - Pat ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100006ave/direct;at.asp_061203_01/01 _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
