On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 07:23:34PM +0100, Mirek Kwasniak wrote:
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> On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 06:56:42PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> > MK>> get IO.SYS to take up the first few sectors of the disk.
> > MK> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > MK> This was needed in pre MS DOS 6.0 (or even 5.0) time.
> > MK>
> > MK>Now you need a proper boot (and maybe master boot) sector and (I'm not
> > MK>shure) not fragmented IO.SYS ...
> > MK>
> > MK>Mirek
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> > IO.SYS is needed for WinSuck95.
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> Yes it's needed but you said "first few sectors of the disk",
> no just copy it into partition.
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> Mirek
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If I format a floppy in DOS, then just copy IO.SYS A:\ (and then
command.com), it boots. When I do the same under Linux, it won't. What I
need is to get a win9x hard drive partition bootable while running off a
Linux boot disk. It has been mentioned that I need a proper boot sector.
How exactly do I get it (i.e. what do I put in the bs= and count= fields
in dd, and do I use raw disk (sda) or partition(sda1), etc, etc?)
Sorry for being so dumb in this field... :)
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