[syslinux] Usin ISO Linux & Memdisk to create a Viritual Floppydrive that Linux & Windows can load driver disk from.

[Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com]

Thanks, will test.
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Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa at zytor.com] 
> Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 3:16 PM
> To: Brown, Michael E
> Cc: Jensas, Harald; SYSLINUX at zytor.com
> Subject: Re: [syslinux] Usin ISO Linux & Memdisk to create a 
> Viritual Floppydrive that Linux & Windows can load driver disk from.
> 
> 
> Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com wrote:
> > With windows, if your "virtual" floppy is drive B:, then 
> windows will 
> > treat it specially. It will basically copy the contents into memory 
> > from real mode using int13h, knowing that it will not be able to 
> > access the device after it switches to protected mode.
> > 
> > I asked a few days ago about support for making a memdisk image
> > behave as drive B:, but got no answer. :-(  
> 
> It's not a super-easy thing to make happen; it certainly 
> won't make 3.10.
> 
> > We have our assembly language guy looking at it, but it is slow as
> > he isn't very familiar with the syslinux codebase.
> 
> Try the attached path, then give the "floppyb" command-line 
> argument to 
> memdisk.
> 
> 	-hpa
>