[syslinux] Possible memdisk issue

[Gert Hulselmans]

You don't even have to mount the floppy image to copy files to it.
You can use mcopy of mtools to copy files to a disk image (doesn't require
root rights).

There is a small tutorial (for a 2880kb floppy image, but by changing the
mformat command, you can make bigger images):
  - Make a new floppy image and format it with FAT12/16/32 with the help of
mformat.
  - Boot to the FreeDOS base iso (fdbasecd.iso) to install the bootsector
on your new floppy image with SYS.COM
  - Once you have created this floppy image of a size that suits you, you
can start from that one the next time for the following step.
  - Copy files to your image from within linux with mcopy.

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4077


Greetings,
Gert


2014-07-16 20:42 GMT+02:00 H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>:

> On 07/15/2014 06:57 PM, Ady wrote:
> >
> > Finally, when using MEMDISK to boot floppy images, these images
> > should not use partial "cylinders". In other words, use exact CHS
> > values for floppy images, instead of building the images by means of
> > the desired megabytes size. Then use the selected CHS values as
> > parameters for MEMDISK.
> >
>
> If you have a proper set of C/H/S parameters on a FAT-formatted
> superfloppy, then MEMDISK can autodetect them from the FAT superblock.
>
>         -hpa
>
>
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