From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Glassberg Subject: Re: floppyimage Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 10:27:24 -0400 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030507142724.GB117@swb1.valley.net> References: <20030506235822.GH1043@swb1.valley.net> <20030507052845.54113.qmail@web41506.mail.yahoo.com> Reply-To: mark_glassberg@valley.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030507052845.54113.qmail@web41506.mail.yahoo.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Lyvim Xaphir Cc: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org 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.