Quoting Dwayne C . Litzenberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 07:23:34PM +0100, Mirek Kwasniak wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 06:56:42PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> > > MK>> get IO.SYS to take up the first few sectors of the disk.
> > > MK> ^^
MK>If I format a floppy in DOS, then just copy IO.SYS A:\ (and then
MK>command.com), it boots. When I do the same under Linux, it won't. What I
MK>need is to get a win9x hard drive partition bootable while running off a
MK>Linux boot disk. It has been mentioned that I need a proper boot sector.
> If I format a floppy in DOS, then just copy IO.SYS A:\ (and then
> command.com), it boots. When I do the same under Linux, it won't. What I
> need is to get a win9x hard drive partition bootable while running off a
> Linux boot disk. It has been mentioned that I need a proper boot sector.
> H
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 07:23:34PM +0100, Mirek Kwasniak wrote:
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MK>On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 06:56:42PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:
MK>> MK>> get IO.SYS to take up the first few sectors of the disk.
MK>> MK> ^^^
MK>> MK> This
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 06:56:42PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> MK>> get IO.SYS to take up the first few sectors of the disk.
> MK> ^^^
> MK> This was needed in pre MS DOS 6.0 (or even 5.0) time.
> MK>
> MK>Now you need a proper boot (a
MK>> get IO.SYS to take up the first few sectors of the disk.
MK> ^^^
MK> This was needed in pre MS DOS 6.0 (or even 5.0) time.
MK>
MK>Now you need a proper boot (and maybe master boot) sector and (I'm not
MK>shure) not fragmented IO.SYS ..
MK>
MK>That's useless for what I need. I need to make *hard drive partitions* of
MK>all different sizes bootable (with Windoze). All I need to know is how to
MK>get IO.SYS to take up the first few sectors of the disk.
MK>
Hello,
on SimTel.Net you will find some tools to read a bootsector and
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 07:23:15AM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote:
[...]
> That's useless for what I need. I need to make *hard drive partitions* of
> all different sizes bootable (with Windoze). All I need to know is how to
> get IO.SYS to take up the first few sectors of the disk.
On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 03:58:09PM +, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Dwayne C . Litzenberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > I'm making a bootdisk that repartitions, erases, and mirrors from a
> > network a Win9x (yeah, I know) system, but how do I get io.sys allocated
> > to the boot sector so it will
Quoting Dwayne C . Litzenberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I'm making a bootdisk that repartitions, erases, and mirrors from a
> network a Win9x (yeah, I know) system, but how do I get io.sys allocated
> to the boot sector so it will boot? Just copying it to the partition
> first doesn't work. (I bas
I'm making a bootdisk that repartitions, erases, and mirrors from a
network a Win9x (yeah, I know) system, but how do I get io.sys allocated
to the boot sector so it will boot? Just copying it to the partition
first doesn't work. (I basically need a SYS.COM-type program for Linux).
Any suggesti
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