On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 03:58:09PM +0000, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Dwayne C . Litzenberger (dlitz@cheerful.com):
> > I'm making a bootdisk that repartitions, erases, and mirrors from a
> > network a Win9x (yeah, I know) system, but how do I get io.sys allocated
> > to the boot sector so it will boot? Just copying it to the partition
> > first doesn't work. (I basically need a SYS.COM-type program for Linux).
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> Clone a bootable floppy with dd (and compress and keep the disk image
> for next time)?
>
> Cheers,
>
That's useless for what I need. I need to make *hard drive partitions* of
all different sizes bootable (with Windoze). All I need to know is how to
get IO.SYS to take up the first few sectors of the disk.
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