Syslinux - Feb 2005 - makebootfat: an utility to create bootable USB disks

Only to inform that I've just released the version 1.2 of makebootfat. 

makebootfat is a GPL command line utility able to create bootable USB
disks for Linux and Windows using the FAT filesystem and syslinux.

As far I know it's the most advanced tool available able to make
bootable USB disks.
It's able to autodetect/partition/format/populate the USB disk in a
single step without any user interaction. It's also able to create
disk images which are compatibles with all the three standards
USB-FDD, USB-HDD and USB-ZIP at the same time.

This is the manpage:
http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/doc-makebootfat.html

This is the download page:
http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/cd-download.html

To see an example of distribution using makebootfat you can download
AdvanceCD in the same download page.

Any comment is welcome. Please use the forum :
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=448362

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Andrea Mazzoleni
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Andrea Mazzoleni wrote:
> Only to inform that I've just released the version 1.2 of makebootfat. 
> 
> makebootfat is a GPL command line utility able to create bootable USB
> disks for Linux and Windows using the FAT filesystem and syslinux.
> 
> As far I know it's the most advanced tool available able to make
> bootable USB disks.
> It's able to autodetect/partition/format/populate the USB disk in a
> single step without any user interaction. It's also able to create
> disk images which are compatibles with all the three standards
> USB-FDD, USB-HDD and USB-ZIP at the same time.
> 
Very useful!  Just as a small warning, USB-FDD *may* not work for you, 
depending on exactly which quirks the BIOS assumes for it.

The other thing is the sentence:

	You must also specify the `ldlinux.bss' boot sector with the
	-b option and eventually the `mbr.bin' MBR sector with the
	-m option. Both the sector images are present in the syslinux
	package.

"eventually" doesn't mean what speakers of most other European
languages
(including Swedish, my native language) think it does; I think the word 
you're looking for is "possibly" or "potentially."

	-hpa