Hi Enbor: One day, I wrote up a rather detailed set of instructions for doing this and customizing it. The big difference is that I use a floppy disk image to boot - it seems to work in more computers than the hard disk image, Anyway, you can look at http://k1ea.com/hints/Creating_a_Bootable_DOS_CD_V%201.5.pdf if you are curious. If you try it, let me know how it works out.
This procedure creates the bootable CD from Windows. It may not work on Vista without a floppy disk drive. Mark Bailey Eric Auer wrote: > Hi Enbor, > >> Hi, is there an easy way to make a custom FreeDOS bootable CD? > > Actually it is not hard :-). You just copy all CD contents to a > directory on harddisk, then edit the contents, and run: > > mkisofs -R -D -V "FreeDOS 1.0b" -o /tmp/fdbasecd-remastered.iso -b \ > ./isolinux/isolinux.bin -c ./isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot \ > -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table ./ > > In of course you would adjust the filenames for your system :-). > I used ./ as the directory with the contents in the example. The > isolinux directory contains the boot menu and a small disk image > which is compressed with gzip. In the 1.0 case, it is a 360k one. > You can use mtools to edit the diskimage, or you can mount the > image. I think mkisofs is also available for Windows, and I hope > you will find a nice diskette image editing tool for Windows as > well. There will be at least a port of mtools somewhere in the > djgpp or cygwin or mingw ports collection, I guess :-). > > Eric > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper > from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going > mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. > http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
