Good day, all: I have come up with a procedure to create a bootable custom DOS CD, with a 2.88MByte boot sector, strictly under Windows XP. A floppy drive makes it a bit easier, but is not required. This uses several free programs: VFD (Virtual Floppy Disk), which simulates a floppy disk drive as A: or B: (either 1.44 MBytes or 2.88MBytes), mkboot which allows copying boot sectors, and mkisofs, which creates the ISO file.
This is currently written for MSDOS and is still crude...it installs the system files and boot sector. I haven't added copying the other files but using this you get an A:\> prompt from MS-DOS. The same general technique will work with FreeDOS. Any knowledgeable DOS user can easily extend this. I like doing this from Windows XP because I can download stuff off the net and use the Windows GUI to create the CD image. I could use some help in describing how to tailor this to FreeDOS and how to set up the CD drivers to use the rest of the CD. If you are interested, drop me a line and I'll send you the MS-DOS draft. Mark ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
