Re: YACS & boot problem
The syslinux package includes some floppy images. Looking at the source
will give people some clues as to how it's done. What I usually do is take
a copy of a "stock" empty floppy image and use a loop mount to modify it.
That's how I created floppy images with newer syslinux code as part of the
CD image generation process. The techniques are basically the same whether
creating minix, ext2, dos, etc. file systems.
If I actually owned a 2.88 floppy drive I would simply create the floppy
and test it, then use the dd command to make a floppy image file from it.
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On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:16:46 +0200
> From: Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>
> To: Hartmut Koptein <Hartmut.Koptein@t-online.de>,
> debian-cd@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: YACS & boot problem
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> Le Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 12:36:06AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog écrivait:
> > You're using boot disk from CVS ?
> >
> > Anyway, CD should support 2.88 M boot images, it may be just a problem of
> > giving the right arg to the mkhybrid command line ... does anyone know
> > about this ?
>
> Ok, i've read the man page. The boot file must be exactly
> 1.2 or 1.44 or 2.88 Mb. Thus rescue2000.bin is not
> allowed. Possible solution: fill the boot file with zero until you
> have the right size :
>
> SIZE=2048000 dd bs=1 if=/dev/zero of=rescue2000.bin seek=$SIZE count=$[ 2949120 - $SIZE ]
>
> SIZE should be the initial size of the resc2000.bin file.
>
> Cheers,
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