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Does anyone know how to install the gptmbr.bin onto a USB drive with Windows? I noticed that it would be really easy to modify the source of the installer to install gptmbr.bin instead of mbr.bin with the -m flag, but I'd like a solution that doesn't require me to maintain my own custom syslinux. I'm open to writing and submitting a patch to add a new flag (say -g) to install

...riting and submitting a patch to add a new flag (say > -g) to install gptmbr.bin but I'd really like a solution that's more like > running `cat gptmbr.bin > /dev/sdb` but on Windows. I sometimes use "rawwrite dd for windows version 0.3" by John Newbigin as well as "mirkes.de Tiny Hexer 1.8.1.6 small edition" by Markus Stephany. Using "dd --list" is educational in the former. Using "File > Disk > Open drive..." is educational in the latter. - Shao

Thanks for all the advice! I found the mirkes.de Tiny Hexer to be extremely helpful. "dd for windows by John Newbigin" seemed like it was going to be perfect for scripting but I wasn't able to get it to write only 440 bytes (it errors if I give it any blocksize that isn't a multiple of 512). I'm thinking that I may need...

Does someone know where I could get my hands on an ima that's larger than 2.88meg... I use winimage for all my ima's and stuff but i'm having trouble configuring a custom size. If anyone has a large ima I could utilize that would be great, preferably one fitting this memdisk supported size: 3,932,160 bytes (3840K) c=80 h=2 s=48 3.5" DSED (extended) If not instructions on making