Re: files as harddrives?

[Bryan Stillwell <bryan@bokeoa.com>]

Your mention of mkfatimage16 caused me to look around in the source tree
a little, and I found mkhdimage in src/tools/periph/ which did exactly
what I wanted!  Thanks for the help, everything is working fine now!  :)

Bryan

On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 10:17:00PM +0400, Stas Sergeev wrote:
>I don't think it was removed. It is more
>like it was disabled in global.conf.
>A quick hack, such as modifying the line
>650 from "disk { image $yyy }" to something
>like "disk { wholedisk /dev/hda }" will still
>work if you cheat dosemu by setting $_hdimage
>to an existing image so that this line in
>global.conf is reached.
>However, what you do you'll still not be able
>to achieve. Dosemu needs to get a disk geometry
>before it can work with it as a wholedisk.
>It uses a HDIO_GETGEO ioctl command for that.
>This is not possible to do with an image file,
>therefore the image file must have some kind of
>a header to provide a geometry - that's why the
>mkfatimage16 exists.
>So mainly, it seems if you do a simple image
>file from your flash drive, there is not enough
>info to get any use of it - the geometry is also
>required.