[syslinux] Large disk image boot. Any suggestions%2

[robotti at godmail.com]

>I tried the commands that you have presented and I running into
>problems.  I tried the ideology that you presented with both 32 and 16mb
>configurations with no luck.  Is there something that I'm missing?
>
>The win98se boot disk boots (just downloaded it from bootdisk today) so
>I used that as a based for the boot file.
>
>Item 8c works fine (1.44 image) but 8b fails.
>
>dd if=/dev/zero of=boot32mb.bin bs=1M count=16
>/sbin/mkdosfs boot32mb.bin
>ms-sys -f -6 boot32mb.bin
>mount -o loop boot32mb.bin boot32mb
>cp win98se/msdos.sys boot32mb/
>cp win98se/io.sys boot32mb/
>cp win98se/command.sys boot32mb/
>cp win98se/command.com boot32mb/
>umount boot32mb
>
>With the entry in default of:
>
>label 8b
>   kernel memdisk
>   append initrd=bigboot/boot32mb.bin
>label 8c
>   kernel memdisk
>   append initrd=bigboot/win98se.bin
>
>drwxr-xr-x   2 root root     4096 Aug 20 13:48 boot32mb
>-rw-r--r--   1 root root 16777216 Aug 20 14:38 boot32mb.bin
>drwxr-xr-x   2 root root     7168 Dec 31  1969 win98se
>-rw-r--r--   1 root root  1474560 Aug 20 13:29 win98se.bin

I guess it won't work because boot32mb.bin isn't floppy size, so it
needs to be partioned like a hard disk for memdisk to boot it.

I don't know offhand how to get it to work.