Hey Peter!
Great work on the SYSLINUX project! I spent three days noodling over how to
accomplish *exactly* what your ISOLINUX/MEMDISK combination does! Even a blind
hog finds an acorn from time to time.
I have it working great using the crpack utility suite from
http://www.nu2.nu
and one of Bart Lagerweij's techniques employs your SYSLINUX utilities - you
probably already know all about that but Bart did me a huge service by including
a set of pre-configured makefiles to build the CD ISO image using mkisofs and
whatnot.
Soo, I have it working great for floppy disk images - these I've made using
the Win32 util WinImage - works great for bootable floppies.
Now I've been struggling with how to create an image of a HD partition. I
have a small partition ~10MB that is bootable into Win98 DOS with all the config
files and crap ready to go and tested. WinImage doesn't seem to be able to
create an uncompressed image file that MEMDISK will boot from.
I've renamed the files to be 8.3 compliant, no long filenames, and they are
all .img as per the MEMDISK docs. I've even gone so far as to use the
bootable image of the partitionimage project at http://www.partimage.org which
boots and works great with MEMDISK - the partition image created by this is
recognized but hangs when MEMDISK says it should be booting.
I can't find any info or discussions regarding the requirements for creating
a HD image, as far as what utils make usable images, what filesystems are
supported (MEMDISK squawked at a FAT12 partition), etc.
I really just want about a 5-10MB FAT16 or FAT32 bootable partition image, but
I'm at a loss for how to create a workable one.
Any suggestions would really help - I'm entering a multiple-OS testing phase
for my software project (http://www.cyboria.com) and I have to reload OS images
frequently, and I'm sooo sick of swapping floppies for utils like Ghost and
DriveImage that a bootable CD came to mind. As far as I can tell you have
created the only solution for this technique so far!
Thanks in advance,
Robby
Y2KBuG at Cyboria.com
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