similar to: CREATING A BOOTABLE LINUX FLOPPY

I'm reading the docs accompanying SYSLINUX where it says:- ++++ CREATING A BOOTABLE LINUX FLOPPY +++ In order to create a bootable Linux floppy using SYSLINUX, prepare a normal MS-DOS formatted floppy. Copy one or more Linux kernel files to it, then execute the DOS command: syslinux [-s] a: Now before I run this program, I'd like to know which 'one or more Linux

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/ $ make hdt.img Now you have a 2.88 MB floppy image which

Hello, I'd be very grateful if someone can help me with the process of creating bootable floppy images to be used with isolinux/memdisk. I usually do the following: label image kernel memdisk append initrd=/bootdisk/image.img floppy (lines in isolinux.cfg file) Sometimes I pass memdisk the c/h/s parameters, depending on the image size. I have learned from this mailing list how to

Hi all, I want to create a bootable DOS 6.22 image for pxelinux + memdisk. The following is my steps, anyone who knows what wrong with them? 1. Create image from a bootable floppy dd if=/dev/fd0 of=dosboot.img dd if=/dev/fd0 of=dos.bss bs=512 count=1 mount -o loop -t msdos dosboot.img /mnt/image cp dos.bss /mnt/image umount /mnt/image 2. config file in pxelinux.cfg folder

Hi there! After reading the last posting about creating a boot disk as non-root, I have a question of my own: Does anyone know a way to produce a floppy/harddisk image able to boot a DOS environment (without using windows, vmware or other tools of that kind)? Is it perhaps even possible to create larger disk images (>2.88MB)? It's no problem to get an image with a DOS filesystem, but

Hello, there is a "fdboot.img" floppy drive image included with FreeDOS ISO file. It's a floppy image file: root at debian64:~# file -s /home/martin/FreeDOS/isolinux/fdboot.img /home/martin/FreeDOS/isolinux/fdboot.img: x86 boot sector, FREE-DOS BEta 0.9 Bootloader KERNEL.SYS, code offset 0x40, OEM-ID "FreeDOS ", sectors/cluster 2, root entries 112, sectors 720 (volumes

hello guys. i've been digging through the mail list archive for a few days, to no avail. i hope you can help me : i want to create a bootable DOS image, approximately 25MB , to boot a system from the network, using PXELINUX . now, i've followed some instructions on this list, but the image always fails to boot. the only thing which succeeds, is to take a bootable DOS disk, put it in

Hello! I just started using Linux and I like the possibilities it offers. I'm using Suse Linux (no MS Windows installed at all). I also discovered that syslinux is capable of making a USB pendrive bootable (with graphic menus). This is very nice. Since I'm a Windows user (up until now), I have some questions: 1 - I already downloaded syslinux 3.82 How do I install it on my pen drive

Hello syslinuxers I'm stuck with a scientific problem which gives me headaches: I have a laptop (Gateway MX3410) which has a SD memory card reader. Recently an interesting thought crossed my mind: why don't I setup a 2GB SD card as a harddrive and put some rescue tools on it. So I dug on the net and I came across the idea of using memdisk to boot floppy images without the need of a

I would like to be able to create a 2.88MB bootable floppy image to hold the kernel and initrd -- will be used for automated install. In various newsgroups there have been many posting attempting to describe how to achieve this, but none of them is complete. Can syslinux be used to achieve this? What about memdisk? Thank you in advance. Fet

I realize this is probably the wrong list but since some of the principals this list deals with are similar in nature I figured it could't hurt. What I am looking to do: Provide a solution to either boot from a floppy disk, establish a network connection, give user the ability to run utilities such as fdisk and dd. as well as provide the same solution as a PXE bootable image. My

I am in the process of trying to update a bootable Linux CD that I initally built some time ago using RedHat 7.3 and syslinux 1.x (I believe that x = 52, but this doesn't seem to be relevant). In order to do this, I first built a floppy disk image and made it bootable by running "syslinux -s" on the image; then I incorporated this image into a CD using "mkisofs -b boot.img -c

Hello, I have been struggling for long with the above. The purpose behind attempting the same is to have a handsfree install from the first CD (bootable) including a customised kernel and application. There will be no user intervention required whatsoever during installation. In this regard this is what I am trying to do. At the end of a manual install of the above distro I can create a auto

I've been attempting to create a bootable image thats double the size of the 2880 floppy disk. I can do the following to create a image that will boot with memdisk but i cant seam to get it to work with a larger size. What works... dd if=/dev/zero of=floppy288.img bs=1024 count=2880 mkdosfs floppy288.img ms-sys -1 -f floppy288.img mount -o loop floppy288.img /mnt

Hi! sorry for the top post. I have had some troubles in the past trying to make equipment to boot a floppy with MS-DOS that also used ms networking to access the network. Particularly the Gateway GSX 500 cannot have the onboard NIC with PXE enabled, as it eats about 92k of highmemory, which in turn makes impossible to start Windows XP setup due to low memory. On that particular machine I had

Hi there, http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/download/seatoold_en.exe Seagate offers a Windows executable (needs Win98 or better, 1,9MB) that should create 2 bootable floppy disks that contain a harddrive check program. Invoking "wine seatoold_en.exe" works, but when the floppy should be written, an error occurs "insert 1.44 MB...click retry". I tried to mount a DOS

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 16:09:50 -0800, Mikey Sklar wrote > > I use 8MB DOS images with pxelinux to load firmware. Which platform > would you like them for (I have many). I just saw your post and I would definitely be interested in an 8 MB DOS images to work with pxelinux. I have tried the method described in http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~gmurali/gui/downloads.html but I keep getting

Hi, The link given in your http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php#config page points to the http://www.argontechnology.ca/rbfg/index.shtml site. This site talks only of Win2k and .Net server. There is no mention of GNU/Linux. Is it possible to use rbfg.exe to create a pxelinux bootable stack on a floppy. If so how ? Rom-O-Matic has a pxe loadable ROM image. Is there a way to use this to

Hi, Thanks a lot for your exceptional work.... I guess many people dealing with bootable CD's just could'nt do anything without isolinux... However I've got a small problem. In fact the problem is maybe due to my BIOS (Phoenix on an HP Vectra VL800), and maybe due to isolinux / memdisk, I don't know. Generally speaking, take any floppy, format it under Win2K, copy from your hard

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 structures that