Re: floppyimage

[Mark Glassberg <mark_glassberg@valley.net>]

On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 10:28:45PM -0700, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
> 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.

The floppy from which I made the image boots; the image doesn't.  Trying to
rename it hdimage_c and put it on the hdimage line of dosemu.conf doesn't
work either.  Any additional ideas would be welcome.