floppyimage

floppyimage

[Mark Glassberg]

How do I make a floppyimage?

Re: floppyimage

[Lyvim Xaphir]

dd if=/dev/fd0 of=your_image_name

--- Mark Glassberg <mark_glassberg@valley.net> wrote:
> How do I make a floppyimage?
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Re: floppyimage

[Mark Glassberg]

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?

Re: floppyimage

[Lyvim Xaphir]

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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Re: floppyimage

[Mark Glassberg]

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.

Re: floppyimage

[Clarence Dang]

On Thu, 8 May 2003 12:27 am, Mark Glassberg wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 10:28:45PM -0700, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
> > 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.  
$_vbootfloppy will probably do it but I've never tried it before.

> 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.
This might not help depending on how the boot sector trickery turns out but 
you could also try mounting the image and then setting $_hdimage to the 
mountpoint.

Cheers,
Clarence