Re: files as harddrives?

[Bryan Stillwell <bryan@bokeoa.com>]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 10:01:33AM +0100, Ged Haywood wrote:
>On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Bryan Stillwell wrote:
>> Anyone here have a filesystem image working as a harddrive under
>> dosemu with the latest stable version?
>
>I've never had any trouble with this, using 1.0.2 and 1.1.4-5 it
>seemed to work just as documented.  The image is an image of a DOS
>filesystem, I think I just used 'dd' to create it.  Eventually I
>stopped using it and just set up a directory in the Linux tree,
>I finkd that's more flexible but you have to think about filenames
>and permissions...

I've done this before and it works fine, but it won't work for what I'm
trying to do.  Perhaps referring to it as a "filesystem image" was
misleading.  It may be easier to think of it as a hard drive image
(actually compact flash image) with the boot sector and partition
information at the front of the file.  I then want to use ltools (dos
program) to read the linux filesystem located on partition 1 of the
file.  For ltools to work correctly in this situation, it must be able
to access the image as if it's a real hard drive within dosemu.

In bochs I was able to get it working with this line in the .bochsrc:

ata0-slave: type=disk, path="$HOME/freedos_drive/cflash.img", cylinders=496, heads=4, spt=32

I just want something similiar to work in dosemu...

Bryan