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Create a virtual FAT-formatted floppy disk from a directory of files. For example: nbdkit floppy /path/to/directory The implementation of this is quite different from nbdkit-iso-plugin since we cannot use an external program. Instead this plugin synthesizes the MBR partition and FAT32 structures that are required. To do: Impleme...

Add nbdkit-floppy-plugin, “inspired” by qemu's VVFAT driver, but without the ability to handle writes. The implementation is pretty complete, supporting FAT32, LFNs, volume labels, timestamps, etc, and it passes both ‘make check’ and ‘make check-valgrind’. Usage is simple; to serve the current directory: $ nb...

...e plugins have in common that they store either a list of allocated strings or a list of constant strings. Define either string_vector or const_string_vector as appropriate and use it to store these lists. --- plugins/iso/Makefile.am | 1 + plugins/split/Makefile.am | 1 + plugins/floppy/virtual-floppy.h | 7 +++-- plugins/floppy/directory-lfn.c | 35 +++++++++------------- plugins/floppy/virtual-floppy.c | 11 +++---- plugins/iso/iso.c | 25 ++++++---------- plugins/split/split.c | 51 +++++++++++++++------------------ plugins/ssh/ssh.c | 24...

Hi, I stumbled on a rather odd problem. A brand new HP Compaq dx2200 computer didn't want to boot up pxelinux+memdisk image. The computer just gave "Disk I/O error" and stopped there. Workaround was rather simple... Just attach regular floppy drive to the motherboard and everything started working fine. I tried with older 2.05 (pxelinux+memdisk) and newer 3.31. Both produced same non-working results when floppy drive was not connected. Changing bios settings (floppy controller enabled/disabled, floppy 1.44/none) didn't help (actu...

On 10/28/18 5:13 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Create a virtual FAT-formatted floppy disk from a directory of files. > > For example: > > nbdkit floppy /path/to/directory > > The implementation of this is quite different from nbdkit-iso-plugin > since we cannot use an external program. Instead this plugin > synthesizes the MBR partition and FAT32 stru...

Tested floppy boot on two machines (one PII 350, one 486DX4) Floppy boot with syslinux is very very slow, more than 18 mn to boot a linux kernel from floppy on the 2 machines. Tested with 3 different disquettes that were know to work, boot is reached after this very long time. Noise from floppy head make think...

Hello All: I've recently had to provision some RHEL and CentOS VMWare instances. There was no network connectivity so I had to use a kickstart floppy and DVD iso rather than installing from our repository. To create the floppy I used the following: As root: dd if=/dev/zero of=floppy.flp bs=1k count=360 mkfs.vfat floppy.flp mount -o loop floppy.flp /mnt/floppy cp base_kickstart.ks /mnt/floppy/ks.cfg umount /mnt/floppy It works, but now...

It is now possible to build a bootable floppy image which contains HDT, with my patch applied to Erwans HDT branch: http://git.zytor.com/?p=users/erwan/hdt.git;a=commit;h=16b37fe2266c920087f88cdec94243b71218d871 Unpack the Syslinux archive and build whole Syslinux first, then cd to ./com32/hdt/ and make hdt.img $ make $ cd ./com32/hdt/ $ ma...

Hello list, My set up is almost complete in booting DOS through PXELinux, but I need to create a DOS boot image from (2 )DOS floppies. I've search the archives and google but didn't find any relavant info... My current set up now works with the standard setup (with one DOS floppy): kernel: memdisk append: initrd=floppy.img ramdisk=10000 My goal to is create a floppy.img from 2 DOS floppies with the dd command or anything that works. I've tried pretty much everything that I can think of, but still not success. Here's a list that I tried: mkdiskimage floppy.img mk...

On bootup, it seems CentOS automatically mounts the floppy drive to /media/floppy. Is there a way to stop this from happening, short of removing the floppy drive from the system (as I don't use it)? Thanks, Ash Christopher -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/cen...

I found that if I do not have a local floppy installed and enabled on my client, I will get the error 'Non-system disk' when I try to boot DOS floppy images. NT or Syslinux floppy images boot fine. If I enable the floppy in the BIOS, then it boots the DOS floppies just fine. Is this normal? Is there a workaround? There are MS-DOS...

Hello A couple of time a was in situation that I needed memdisk to emulate TWO floppies for me. Let's give an example: Kaspersky Antivirus makes two rescue floppyes, one with ext2 filesystem, one with FAT12 filesystem. Ext2 floppy is bootable and loads fine with memdisk and it search for 2nd floppy to be inserted in floppy drive. This two floppies don't have chance to be combined in one 2.88 floppy. The solution will be to have memdisk capable of loading...

Hi - daft one for Friday morning coffee break: I have been trying to mount floppies on a couple of CentOS5 servers - the usual "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy" (yes, /mnt/floppy exists!). On both servers, the mount command just doesn't come back and I have to hit CTRL-C. I have tried different media and also changed the floppy drive on one server, /dev/fd0 is seen as present on both servers and they are enabled in the BIOS. I have formatted an...

Hi, I am trying to load an disk image as Floppy=1, og B: using ISOLINUX. My Config file reads: ------- Begining Of File ------- KERNEL MEMDISK APPEND raw floppy=1 initrd=CERC6.IMG ------- End Of File ------------ --- MEMDISK Output Snip ------ Ramdisk at 0x03b58000, length 0x00168000 command line: initrd=CERC6.IMG raw floppy=1 BOOT_IMAG...

...2-based servers w/Intel 8255x 10/100 LOM IBM eSeries x345 w/Intel 82546EB Dual-Port Gigabit LOM IBM eSeries x235 w/Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit LOM Dell PowerEdge 2450 w/Intel 8255x 10/100 LOM It is also worthy of note that I have discovered that the problem appears to be related to the absence of a floppy drive. The servers I'm using have no floppy disk or CD-ROM (so you can see how I ended up running pxeLinux to get them installed), but I was installing some S/W via a floppy I temporarily hooked up and forgot to remove it when rebooting. To my surprise, the boot image loaded. I thought I had in...

This patch builds a floppy image with contains HDT, so users of GRUB or GRUB4DOS can use HDT too, without installing Syslinux. When you compile Syslinux, this floppy image isn't build automatically. To build it, runthe following from the extracted Syslinux source: $ cd ./com32/hdt $ make hdt.img As suggested by Pi...

syslinux 3.11 (from debian's 3.11-3 package) does it job. The machine boots as expected with an 1.44 floppy. Yet the floppy driver's led doesn't turn off. 1) Is this a syslinux issue? 2) Can I safely remove the boot floppy (media) without dameging it? From memory: $ cat syslinux.cfg say linux 2.6.14 (probably with debian modifications) default linux append root=/dev/nfs ip=::::::dhcp PAR...

The previous code treated floppy disks and CD-ROMs as the same kind of thing, resulting in malformed libvirt XML. You would see the following error when importing a guest into libvirt: error: Failed to define domain from /tmp/v2vlibvirt063486.xml error: internal error: Invalid floppy device name: hdb because we incorrectly...

Hi, It is becoming a bad habit for big OEM vendors to sell computers & servers without floppy drives. Unfortunatly both Windows and Linux (RedHat) need a floppy drive to load storage drivers etc. during installation. This is what I was thinking: Use ISOLINUX and MEMDISK to load a floppy image of a driver disk into memory as a viritual floppy drive "A:"/"/dev/fda" And th...

Hello, I am using the pxelinux.0 and memdisk files from distribution syslinux-3.36. I am no longer able to access the real floppy disk drive B: instead I just get a mirrored copy of the emulated floppy disk A: The default config file is as follows label 1 kernel memdisk append initrd=kd202.img I was previously using the sysliunx-3.20 distribution which gave me access to the real floppy disk drive using drive B: with E...