[syslinux] SYSLINUX 3.11-pre3 -- release candidate

[H. Peter Anvin]

Bernd Blaauw wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin schreef:
> 
>> Discarded, replaced with "floppy=1".
> 
> 
> I finally read up on documentation, and indeed 'floppy=N' parameter is 
> mentioned there. Any valid numbers aren't mentioned, but as MEMDISK is 
> usually only meant for DOS, valid numbers are 0 and 1.
> I don't know if it depends on my VMware 5.5 bios, but when using 
> 'floppy=1', Memdisk reports the 360KB image I load as 'harddrive' , 
> while 'floppy' (same for 'floppy=0') reports 'disk image is a floppy'
> 
> Perhaps I should be testing with MSDOS instead of FreeDOS, as the 
> bootsector of the disk image is involved?
> 

It's not.  That logic is entirely within MEMDISK itself.  There might be 
a bug in the printouts.

>> MEMDISK itself?  No.
> 
> So there's a decompression engine for disk images, but none for 
> compressed files you want to run?
> That would mean the program you want to run itself would have to support 
> (de)compression.

You *almost* got it right... the bulk of MEMDISK *is* the decompression 
engine!

	-hpa