[syslinux] Looking for mkdosfs for Syslinux 1.67

Gene Cumm
Sat, 25 Jul 2015 20:00:37 -0000

On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Pat O'Toole <pat at patotoole.net>
wrote:
> thank you very much!!

You're welcome.

Sometimes the hardest part is asking the right question.

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gene Cumm" <gene.cumm at
gmail.com>
> To: <pat at patotoole.net>
> Cc: "For discussion of Syslinux and tftp-hpa" <syslinux at
zytor.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 24, 2015 7:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [syslinux] Looking for mkdosfs for Syslinux 1.67
>
>
>> On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 3:18 PM, pat via Syslinux <syslinux at
zytor.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I guess...what I need is a 'mini unix'..that will boot from
cd
>>> and run in ramdisk..without installing anything on the HD...
>>> (I first found this via a link on an old minds at work webpage)
>>> that also has dostools..that include, of course, mkdosfs.
>>
>>
>> You want a live Linux distro with recovery tools like dosfstools.
>>
>> For recovery purposes, I've been using a personal respin of
TinyCore
>> with specific extensions pre-loaded which can operate completely from
>> RAM (not just mounting a CD post-boot) with a relatively small RAM
>> footprint.  Years ago, I spun my own from RHL, then custom-built
>> binaries with uclibc, then RIPLinux and now TinyCore.  It's
flexible
>> yet I can have a lot of basic tools while booting from USB, CD or PXE
>> and relatively up to date.  Mine is also modularized with multiple
>> initrd payloads (.cpio.gz files for INITRAMFS).
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Didier Spaier via Syslinux
>> <syslinux at zytor.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Try GParted:
>>> http://gparted.org/index.php
>>
>>
>> A good example that might be an excellent prebuilt choice.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 3:55 PM, H. Peter Anvin via Syslinux
>> <syslinux at zytor.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes.  Look into Knoppix or Fedora Live, for example.
>>
>>
>> More excellent examples, all depending on how much you want to load
>> and if you want to load completely to RAM versus having a CD
>> persistently mounted.
>>
>> --
>> -Gene
>
>



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-Gene