Hi Eric: Sorry, I misread it. That is my method as well - use ISOLINUX.
VFD (Virtual Floppy Driver) is a good, non-Vista, method of "editing" floppy disk images. It mounts the image file as a lettered floppy drive and you can copy files, do drag and drop, or whatever. Executing the "SYS" command is the only challenge - you pretty much need a pre-made floppy disk image to get the boot sector. 73, Mark Eric Auer wrote: > Hi Mark, > > actually no FreeDOS distro has used harddisk images yet. The > mkisofs command shown below does not use any image at all. > Instead, it uses "no emul boot" to load isolinux, and this > then loads a compressed diskette image into a memdisk ramdisk > and boots it. Compared to using a classic diskette image boot, > you can write temp files to the memdisk. It should be equally > compatible as your method, and you are right that harddisk > images would be less compatible. > >> 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 > >>> 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 ./ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
