Re: your mail

[Jochen Reinwand <jbr.1@gmx.net>]

> > Nevertheless it would be possible to make this distribution. But there
> > are a lot of things that have to be figured out. A basic problem: Do we
> > use a Windows/DOS or a Linux/Unix system for extracting the files from
> > Windows and for building the new system.
> > The following functions need further inspection:
> >
> > What boot system to use? Booting from a Windows CD is possible, but
> > building a new bootable CD is better. The ERD could be used.
> > If we only have Linux how can we build this ERD. The necessary file are
> > installed with Windows in the directory EBD and should be somewhere in
> > the CAB files on the Windows CD. Copy them to disk is easy, but how to do
> > a "sys a:" from within Linux?
>
> Well, I booted Dos 7 (from 98se) on my hard drive with Dosemu 1.1.5 as
> root and executed "sys c: a:". And the resulting boot disk works! You
> will need a working Dos installed, though. Or at least a boot floppy.

Nice idea! Perhaps it is possible to execute MS-DOS "sys" with some tricks 
without installing a complete 98SE...
It would be nice to have small a Linux prog to do the same, but booting the 
Win98SE cd with dosemu would be a solution if this cannot be done.
Seems to be the only real problem I face in this project......

I believe I found it! On the win98se cd I found in tools/mtsutil/fat32ebd/ the 
MS-DOS tool that does exactly what I want to do without using "sys". Seems 
like image.dsk "formats" and "sys's" a floppy be simply doing a
cat image.dsk > /dev/fd0
I will reboot and test it after sending this mail ;-)

> > Can we access CAB files from within Linux at all? I have not searched for
> > a tool by now...
>
> You can extract cabs with extract.exe (from windir\command, or it can be
> found on the windows install cd, too). Seems to work perfectly with both
> Dosemu and Wine under Linux.

I found a really cool Linux tool called cabextract 
(http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/cabextract.php3). I can extract the complete 
Win98SE CABs from cd! But that's also the problem. I can only extract 
everything. I wrote an e-mail to the author requesting a possibility to 
specify the files to be extracted.

Jochen