Syslinux - Apr 2003 - Creating hard disk image

Hello All.

How can I create a hard disk image that can be booted with isolinux + memdisk? 
How do I go about, for example, if I want to create a harddisk image of
/dev/hda1 which is 4+Mb in size?  The docs offered some clues that I need to
copy the mbr and the partition table also.  I also read from the archives that
what I should do to create the image of /dev/hda1 is to use dd if=/dev/hda
of=myHDimg.img and this will copy the partition table.  If I have several
partitions on /dev/hda and not just /dev/hda1 will there be any problem since
the partition table copied also described the other partitions?

What I am trying to do is to burn movix and movix2
(http://movix.sourceforge.net) into one cd and multi-boot between the two.  Both
are available as iso and are about 18-30 Mb in size.  Since they are isos i
guess more work has to be done to make them multi-boot.

Thank you for the replies.


Holden

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Holden Hao wrote:
| How can I create a hard disk image that can be booted with isolinux +
memdisk?  How do I go about, for example, if I want to create a harddisk
image of /dev/hda1 which is 4+Mb in size?  The docs offered some clues
that I need to copy the mbr and the partition table also.  I also read
from the archives that what I should do to create the image of /dev/hda1
is to use dd if=/dev/hda of=myHDimg.img and this will copy the partition
table.  If I have several partitions on /dev/hda and not just /dev/hda1
will there be any problem since the partition table copied also
described the other partitions?

Is there a Archive search function for the Syslinux Mailinglist
Archives? If so, where to find it, how to use it?
That would be convenient for previously answered questions like this
one. Is there a Syslinux-FAQ with Q&A assembled from the Mailing list?

Perhaps you (hpa) should add info like
"FWIW, the mkdiskimage tool that comes with SYSLINUX can generate blank
HD images, including ones in DOSEMU format.  MEMDISK can use DOSEMU
format directly nowadays."
to the Memdisk documentation page for "customer satisfaction" ;)

bye
Christian
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