[syslinux] Very Nice!

[Cyboria]

Hey Peter!
 Great work on the SYSLINUX project! I spent three days noodling over how to accomplish *exactly* what your ISOLINUX/MEMDISK combination does! Even a blind hog finds an acorn from time to time. 

I have it working great using the crpack utility suite from 
http://www.nu2.nu
and one of Bart Lagerweij's techniques employs your SYSLINUX utilities - you probably already know all about that but Bart did me a huge service by including a set of pre-configured makefiles to build the CD ISO image using mkisofs and whatnot.
Soo, I have it working great for floppy disk images - these I've made using the Win32 util WinImage - works great for bootable floppies.
Now I've been struggling with how to create an image of a HD partition. I have a small partition ~10MB that is bootable into Win98 DOS with all the config files and crap ready to go and tested. WinImage doesn't seem to be able to create an uncompressed image file that MEMDISK will boot from.
I've renamed the files to be 8.3 compliant, no long filenames, and they are all .img as per the MEMDISK docs. I've even gone so far as to use the bootable image of the partitionimage project at http://www.partimage.org which boots and works great with MEMDISK - the partition image created by this is recognized but hangs when MEMDISK says it should be booting. 
I can't find any info or discussions regarding the requirements for creating a HD image, as far as what utils make usable images, what filesystems are supported (MEMDISK squawked at a FAT12 partition), etc.
I really just want about a 5-10MB FAT16 or FAT32 bootable partition image, but I'm at a loss for how to create a workable one.
Any suggestions would really help - I'm entering a multiple-OS testing phase for my software project (http://www.cyboria.com) and I have to reload OS images frequently, and I'm sooo sick of swapping floppies for utils like Ghost and DriveImage that a bootable CD came to mind. As far as I can tell you have created the only solution for this technique so far!

Thanks in advance,
Robby
Y2KBuG at Cyboria.com


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