Re: floppyimage

[Lyvim Xaphir <lxaphir@yahoo.com>]

OK.  First thing is, the original floppy that you are using for the image
must be bootable.  Forgive me for going over the simple sh**.  But
normally I create the bootable images from a dos 7.10 formatted floppy
that I've tested first.  (format a:/s, or sys a: --but format is safer)
Dos 7.10 is what shipped with Win 98 (and 95 I believe), and I've used it
for years because it's the sweet spot in dos versions.

If the floppy boots on it's own, then the image will, and if you are not
getting results, then we have a dosemu.conf problem.  It's entirely
possible that you could treat the floppy image as an hdimage in the .conf
and this would work; I think I've tried that before and it flew.  However
I'm shooting from the hip on this, and furthermore I just loaded LM91
(Mandrake) some two weeks ago and havent reloaded dosemu yet.  This seems
like an excellent opportunity to get it installed and configured; I might
try the floppy stuff so I can give you some direction.

HTH,

LX

--- Mark Glassberg <mark_glassberg@valley.net> wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 03:48:00PM -0700, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
> > dd if=/dev/fd0 of=your_image_name
> 
> That works, but not enough.  The image I created using dd can be
> mounted, using the loop option.  It can be linked to a loop device
> with losetup.  It can not, however, be used as a virtual boot
> floppy under dosemu 1.0.2.1.  When I place the image in the
> directory with my hard disk images and insert the name of the
> image on the "$_vbootfloppy = " line in dosemu.conf, dosemu will
> not boot.  Any ideas on how I can get this image to boot dosemu?


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