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Hello, a friend of mine has a bootable floppy disk with diagnostic OBDTool software. It is based on some kind of Linux and works only after booting it. Problem is, that he has not a floppy drive in his notebook and wants the floppy content place to a bootable CD-R(W). The floppy content is not visible nor under Windows neither Suse Linux. Both systems say that no floppy is inserted. Is there a way how to make the floppy image, and burn it on CD so that it would be bootable? Thanks for any advice Jan Sedivy
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On 11/15/05, Jan Sedivy
Hello,
a friend of mine has a bootable floppy disk with diagnostic OBDTool software. It is based on some kind of Linux and works only after booting it. Problem is, that he has not a floppy drive in his notebook and wants the floppy content place to a bootable CD-R(W).
The floppy content is not visible nor under Windows neither Suse Linux. Both systems say that no floppy is inserted. Is there a way how to make the floppy image, and burn it on CD so that it would be bootable?
Try this:
1. Create a new directory where all the files can be placed.
2. Create an image from the floppy which you want to boot from CD:
% dd if=/dev/fd0 of=boot.img bs=10k count=144
Place this image in the newly created dir. Your directory structure
should look like this:
% ls
/somedir/boot.img
3. Create an ISO from the image just written with dd:
% mkisofs -r -b boot.img -c boot.catalog -o cd.iso ./
This creates an ISO with a boot catalog, which is required by El
Torito. Now burn cd.iso file with your favourite CD recording tool.
You can mount the ISO file and check that everything went well:
% mount -o loop,ro /somedir/cd.iso /mnt/iso
This should work (at least I hope it does). Good luck.
\Steve
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Steve Graegert
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On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 15:24 +0100, Jan Sedivy wrote:
Hello,
a friend of mine has a bootable floppy disk with diagnostic OBDTool software. It is based on some kind of Linux and works only after booting it. Problem is, that he has not a floppy drive in his notebook and wants the floppy content place to a bootable CD-R(W).
The floppy content is not visible nor under Windows neither Suse Linux. Both systems say that no floppy is inserted. Is there a way how to make the floppy image, and burn it on CD so that it would be bootable?
Thanks for any advice
Jan Sedivy
When creating a bootable CD from a 1.44 floppy image you will not under windows linux or any other OS that I know of, be able to see the contents of the boot image, unless you boot to it. or mount the image somewhere, mount -t <filsystem> -o loop /path/to/image.img /path/to/mount/point If you want to make the CD bootable with the floppy image, then I suggest using a combo of dd and k3b you can add the boot image to the K3b bootcatalogue. Hope this helps Chadley
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Chadley Wilson
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Jan Sedivy
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Steve Graegert