[syslinux] Memdisk large IMA file

[Matthew Holevinski]

That site looks good, but it goes from 2.88 to 5.76mb

I'm not sure if memdisk will support that size...

Matt

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Bernd Blaauw <bblaauw at home.nl> wrote:
> Op 4-5-2010 18:56, Matthew Holevinski schreef:
>>
>> Does someone know where I could get my hands on an ima that's larger
>> than 2.88meg... I use winimage for all my ima's and stuff but i'm
>> having trouble configuring a custom size. If anyone has a large ima I
>> could utilize that would be great, preferably one fitting this memdisk
>> supported size:
>>
>> 3,932,160 bytes (3840K) c=80 h=2 s=48   3.5"  DSED (extended)
>>
>
> http://www.wolfgang-brinkmann.de/bcdw/images_e.htm  has floppy images up to
> 700MB , no idea how they're made, guess someone had fun with some Linux
> tools.
>
> WinImage (I bought it, no idea if pro-version only feature) seems to have a
> custom filesize option (FILE/NEW/IMPORTED/ SELECT CUSTOM IMAGE FORMAT).
> Don't ask me how to use it though.
> Memdisk might require you to specify cilinders, heads and sectors when
> loading from Syslinux.
>
> There might also exist some ancient DOS diskette formatting tools/programs
> to create 2.88MB floppy images with supersize.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2M_%28DOS%29 for example
>
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