Hi ... I was recently trying to create a 2.88Mb floppy file to try and BIOS upgrade a Dell computer that wouldn't boot anything graphical.
I know I'm probably going about this wrong, but I cannot seem to use fdformat, or mkfs -F pcfs on a file, in order to burn the file to a cdrom ... jadams@jadlaptop:~$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test.ima bs=1024 count=2880 2880+0 records in 2880+0 records out jadams@jadlaptop:~$ pfexec lofiadm -a /tmp/test.ima /dev/lofi/1 jadams@jadlaptop:~$ pfexec mkfs -F pcfs -o fat=12,nofdisk,ntrack=160,nsect=36,fat=12,b="test-disk",size=2880k,v -o fat=12 /dev/rlofi/1 Opening destination device/file. Requested offset: Sector 0. Requested size is too small for FAT16. (strange since I'm sure I told it do do fat12 ...) jadams@jadlaptop:~$ pfexec fdformat -E -t dos -b "test-disk" -f /dev/rlofi/1 fdformat: DKIOCGAPART failed, Inappropriate ioctl for device I'm aware that what I'm doing seems foolish, I just wanted a big enough space to copy the dell BIOS and some RAMDISK drivers+config.sys to it. I'm just baffled by how I would even do this on Solaris, or Illumos to a file. I managed to get it to work on a 1.44Mb floppy from someone else's site because they had smaller drivers for RAMDISK operation and I didn't care what the screen or keyboard worked like ... but I only had a couple of K to spare. It didn't fix the issue, turns out someone had just been into the BIOS and changed the hard-drive settings to AHCI (which XP SP2 wouldn't see). _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
