Re: Needed option (fwd)

[Fredrik Stax{ng]

David C Niemi <address@hidden> writes:

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> Hi,
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> This isn't a bug report, rather it's more like a suggestion for a
> needed feature in mtools.

Given documentation for the 3com card it should not be hard to
enhance Donald Becker's utility to do what you want. 

There is a way to make a DOS boot diskette with mtools. The problem 
is that you need a DOS boot diskette to extract some pieces from,
and then you might as well copy the disk with dd, and erase the 
things you don't need on the copy.

Anyway, if you are interested, here is how it is done

mformat -t 80 -s 18 -h 2 -B bootsect.dos a:
mcopy io.sys a:IO.SYS
mcopy msdos.sys a:MSDOS.SYS
mcopy command.com a:COMMAND.COM
mcopy drvspace.bin a:DRVSPACE.BIN
mattrib +s +h +r a:io.sys a:msdos.sys a:drvspace.bin

You need to get the bootsect.dos file with something like

dd if=/dev/fd0 of=bootsect.dos count=1

I think you should suggest this to the freedos people also. They
have all the pieces, they just need to make their format.com
compile and run under Linux.


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