[syslinux] Growing out of floppy images, what's the best alternative?

[Bernd Blaauw]

Op 19-4-2010 17:26, Leenders, Peter schreef:
> we use "floppy"-Images with up to 23 MB. We use these bootimages e.g. for bios/firmware update that will take up to 16 floppy disks.
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> With Winimage you can create Standard Images till 2.88 MB under Windows. Winimage can also handle bigger images. But I know no method to create bootable Floppy images>  2.88 Mb with onboard features of WinImage. Unfortuanally I can not give you access to our internal bootimages for licence reasons. There are instruction in the internet how to create a big floppy image e.g. out of the ghost83.bif file. If you use image bigger than 2.88 MB you have tell memdisk that this will be a floppy image and at least a hint of the geometry. In my case the extra parameters "floppy c=255 h=8 s=36" or "floppy c=255 h=16 s=36" will work with my bootimages.
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http://www.wolfgang-brinkmann.de/bcdw/images_e.htm

contains huge floppy images, likely with a FreeDOS bootsector (but no 
system files) in it.

Bernd