[syslinux] FW: How do I emulate a harddrive instead of a flop py?

[Jay Winks]

OK, seem to have answered my own question... I think. We'll see how it works out. Basically I should've been asking for some help in the dosemu forums because that's where I needed the help. I think I get it now.... 

mkdiskimage whatever size you need
Set up dosemu to boot the precise DOS flavor you want from mounted folder
also mount the image as secondary HDD
fdisk, format, sys, etc the img.
move image to tftp server
get back to work

Is that it? Feel kinda stupid...it seems so obvious when done that way now. Sorry if I wasted anybody's time. Sounds like this is stuff everybody else knows.

BTW -- WTF have I done wrong in my email prog to make my lines not wrap? It's annoying as hell to me and I know what I wrote so it has to be painful for you guys...

Jay Winks    



-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Winks [mailto:Jay.Winks at teksouth.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 10:08 AM
To: 'syslinux at zytor.com'
Subject: [syslinux] FW: How do I emulate a harddrive instead of a floppy?


OK, I'm really showing my inexperience now, but...

The syslinux FAQ states that a DOS-compatible HDD MBR is distributed (I assume that is MBR.BIN) with the package. So how do I then make an image file for use with pxelinux that emulates HDD? Up until now I have only been successful in modifying images made by someone else (I have been using a modified version of Unattended from SourceForge and its boot images) and I don't know what they used. I'd rather find out more about creating these bootable images myself. Any links or spoon-feeding? I am familiar with making an image of an existing floppy, but I do not know how to emulate different boot sectors. Any links or spoon-feeding?

Thanks.
Jay Winks
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