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Help with fat32 creating/booting/resizing
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Michael Blandford |
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Help with fat32 creating/booting/resizing |
Date: |
Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:07:02 -0700 |
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Hello,
Here is what I am trying to do:
Boot from a small linux image via pxe. Image is only around 6 megs.
Image builds a 32meg ramdisk to work with for extra working space.
What I want to do is:
create a fat 32 filesystem on a disk. I would probably want this to be
the whole disk.
make it bootable - ie equivalent of sys c: via parted or linux that
would work for different disk types? ie hda, sda, etc.
extract a bunch of files onto the new partition.
I was hoping I could do something like:
wget http://server/filesystem.tar.gz | gunzip | parted --script
<options> to lay it down on the disk.
The end goal is this disk must be bootable into the new fat32 partition.
I am assuming I need to add something to the boot block as well.
So far I have no luck making this work. If I create the filesystem with
fdisk + mkdosfs -F32 then when I reboot it, a windows95 boot disk wont
recognize the filesystem.
Any help or ideas on how to accomplish something like this would be
greatly appreciated.
Michael
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Intel, Corp.
5000 W. Chandler Blvd.
Chandler, AZ 85226
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