I have managed to do that with Eric's help. It is in the list archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net/msg10922.html>
I made it for 6M (4x floppy size), other sizes are equaly possible Aain Em 16-09-2011 10:00, Hoot, Joseph escreveu: > Hi all, > > I've been using a 4M disk image that has freedos on it for awhile now to do > bios updates in my Dell iDRAC. I'm finally crossing the threshold of > available space and need to create a new, larger, disk image. > > So what process would I go through to create this larger disk image? Here > are some of the things that I've done so far from Linux: > > 1) dd if=/dev/zero of=disk20M.img bs=1m count=20 > 2) mkdosfs on the disk20M.img > 3) grabbed a FDOEM.144 img from the web and dd the boot sector off of it with > the following: > dd if=FDOEM.144 of=disk20M.img bs=1 count=446 seek=62 skip=62 > conv=notrunc > 4) mount -o loop disk20M.img /mnt<-- and then copy whatever EXE's and such > that I wanted over to the disk. > 5) umount the disk20M.img from /mnt > 6) attempt to boot > > This process worked for me in the past, but I haven't been able to get it to > work now that I'm increasing the disk to 20M > > Does anyone have any advise on trying to get this to work? > > Thanks, > Joe > > =========================== > Joseph R. Hoot > Lead System Programmer/Analyst > (w) 716-878-4832 (Office - Receptionist/able to leave message) > (w) 716-878-4863 (Direct - no voicemail) > (c) 716-759-HOOT > joe.h...@itec.suny.edu > GPG KEY: 7145F633 > =========================== > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
