From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tonyb@sysdev.org Subject: HowTo make bootable file image from /dev/hda1 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:17:11 -0800 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20031027181711.2c42e9bb.tonyb@sysdev.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org Has anybody made a successful boot image from a fat16 partition for use with dosemu 1.99 I have the partition mounted as /dosc but that drive is going away, so need to virtualize to a file image. Tried dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/hdimage etc... mkfatimage16 -k32768 -f hdimage -b /dosc /dosc tried dd of the mbr to a separate file in combination with the above and none work??? Thanks in advance, TonyB -- __ __ _ I N C. http://www.sysdev.org / __|\\// __|| \ __ __ / tonyb@sysdev.org \__ \ \/\__ \||)|/ O_)\/ / \/ System Tools / Utilities |___/ || ___/|_ /\___|\_/ WIntel / Linux Device Drivers