Re: Creating a (bootable) DOS floppy disk image
On 2010-05-30, T o n g wrote:
> How can I make a DOS floppy disk image under Linux?
>
> [OT]
> Moreover, my experience with DOS was back in stone age when you use
>
> sys A:
>
> to make it boot-able. Now with Win NT/XP etc, I hear that merely copying
> ntldr, ntdetect.com and boot.ini into it will make it boot-able. Anybody
> know if it is true?
> [/OT]
Depends what you want to do with the floppy. I won't comment on
MS-Windows, but a single-disk FreeDOS floppy such as BALDER will
boot to FreeDOS with vfat but not ntfs.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/balder/
Regards,
Howard E.
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