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
Hi, fetak at comcast.net schrieb am 06.10.03 18:28:28:> > 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?Syslinux can use these images (for cd installs with floppy images e.g.), but syslinux can't produce these images. Syslinux is in general a boot loader, and contains nothing (or at least not really much - it installs boot sectors, but nothing more) to create these images.> What about memdisk?Memdisk also uses these images to emulate a local drive for dos. The baseline of creating this image is to create a file with the size of the image, create a filesystem on it, loopback mount it, put the files on it, and umount it. This is all quite straightforward. The only point where it is not is with boot sectors (and with hard disk images: Partitioning). There were some postings for creating hard disk images some month ago, and AFAIR hpa put something from these on the web site. Regards, Josef ______________________________________________________________________________ Horoskop, Comics, VIPs, Wetter, Sport und Lotto im WEB.DE Screensaver1.2 Kostenlos downloaden: http://screensaver.web.de/?mc=021110
> The baseline of creating this image is to create a file with the size of the > image, create a filesystem on it, loopback mount it, put the files on it, > and umount it. > This is all quite straightforward.Yes, no problem in doing these...> The only point where it is not is with > boot sectors (and with hard disk images: Partitioning). There were > some postings for creating > hard disk images some month ago, and AFAIR hpa put something from these on > the web site.This is what I need and I do not seem to be able to find this info. Maybe right in front of my eyes, but... Fet
For 2.88Mb floppy images you do not need any partition tables, you can just mount it directly and put your files in it. Then to be able to boot from it you just need to follow the documentation of syslinux and make the appropriate config files. Regards, Remko van der Vossen ----- Original Message ----- From: <fetak at comcast.net> To: "Josef Siemes" <jsiemes at web.de> Cc: <syslinux at zytor.com> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 19:45 Subject: Re: [syslinux] Bootable 2.88MB floppy image> > The baseline of creating this image is to create a file with the size ofthe> > image, create a filesystem on it, loopback mount it, put the files onit,> > and umount it. > > This is all quite straightforward. > > Yes, no problem in doing these... > > > The only point where it is not is with > > boot sectors (and with hard disk images: Partitioning). There were > > some postings for creating > > hard disk images some month ago, and AFAIR hpa put something from theseon> > the web site. > > This is what I need and I do not seem to be able to find this info. Mayberight in front of my eyes, but...> > Fet > _______________________________________________ > SYSLINUX mailing list > Submissions to SYSLINUX at zytor.com > Unsubscribe or set options at: > http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux > Please do not send private replies to mailing list traffic. >
Hi, fetak at comcast.net schrieb am 06.10.03 19:54:52:> > > The baseline of creating this image is to create a file with the size of the > > image, create a filesystem on it, loopback mount it, put the files on it, > > and umount it. > > This is all quite straightforward. > > Yes, no problem in doing these... > > > The only point where it is not is with > > boot sectors (and with hard disk images: Partitioning). There were > > some postings for creating > > hard disk images some month ago, and AFAIR hpa put something from these on > > the web site. > > This is what I need and I do not seem to be able to find this info. Maybe right in front of my eyes, but...See for the hard disk method the thread: : Subject: Re: [syslinux] help: booting dos from syslinux/memdisk : Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 14:19:08 +0200 For floppy images you don't need to do anything special, just tell syslinux to use the image file you used with the loopback mount instead of /dev/fd0. Regards, Josef ______________________________________________________________________________ Die Besten ihrer Klasse! WEB.DE FreeMail (1,7) und WEB.DE Club (1,9) - bei der Stiftung Warentest - ein Doppelsieg! http://f.web.de/?mc=021184