Re: Creating a (bootable) DOS floppy disk image

2010-05-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-05-30 07:16 +0200, T o n g wrote: > How can I make a DOS floppy disk image under Linux? $ dd if=/dev/zero of=floppy-image bs=1440k count=1 $ /sbin/mkdosfs floppy-image You need the dosfstools package for the latter command. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.

Re: Creating a (bootable) DOS floppy disk image

2010-05-30 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 29 May 2010 09:16:16 pm T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > How can I make a DOS floppy disk image under Linux? > > [OT] > Moreover, my experience with DOS was back in stone age when you use > > sys A: > > to make it boot-able. Now with Win NT/XP etc, I hear that merely copying > ntldr, ntdetect.

Re: Creating a (bootable) DOS floppy disk image

2010-05-30 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On 2010-05-30, T o n g wrote: > How can I make a DOS floppy disk image under Linux? > > [OT] > Moreover, my experience with DOS was back in stone age when you use > > sys A: > > to make it boot-able. Now with Win NT/XP etc, I hear that merely copying > ntldr, ntdetect.com and boot.ini into it w

Re: Creating a (bootable) DOS floppy disk image

2010-05-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat May 29 2010 10:16:16 pm T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > How can I make a DOS floppy disk image under Linux? I haven't made a dos disk in ages but I think mkdosfs from the dosfstools package will do this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Creating a (bootable) DOS floppy disk image

2010-05-29 Thread T o n g
Hi, How can I make a DOS floppy disk image under Linux? [OT] Moreover, my experience with DOS was back in stone age when you use sys A: to make it boot-able. Now with Win NT/XP etc, I hear that merely copying ntldr, ntdetect.com and boot.ini into it will make it boot-able. Anybody know if i