25 Aug
2004
25 Aug
'04
04:42
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 06:53 am, Ti Kan wrote:
$ which dosbootdisk /usr/bin/dosbootdisk $ file /usr/bin/dosbootdisk /usr/bin/dosbootdisk: Bourne shell script text
So it's just a shell script. Examining the script shows that all you do is use the following syntax:
dosbootdisk [device]
Where device is an optional floppy device, such as /dev/fd1. If none is specified, it will use /dev/fd0h1440.
The rest is all interactive. It will create a bootable FreeDOS floppy by decompressing /usr/share/dosbootdisk/floppy.gz and then writing the image to the floppy disk.
Hello Ti, Thanks for that little tidbit. Have tried many times to make a boot disk and always failed. Now I have it. Bob S.