Re: Live CD

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John Corey wrote:
> Mark Blunier wrote:
> > I've read stuff that seems to indicate that it is possible to make
> > an isofs with a boot parts of a hard drive, but the details were
> > for a M$ product, and not for mkisofs.  And since mkisofs says
> > 1.44 or 2.88 is what I need, I bookmarked the page, and went on
> > with life.
> >
> > As far as using 2.88, I don't have a 2.88 drive, but I figure there
> > ought to be a way to do it.  As far as that goes, I've never even
> > heard of anyone that owns 2.88 M drive.
> 
> I seem to remember back in the days when I played with dosemu, there was
> something to make a dos filesystem image, is there a mkdosfs or
> something similar to mke2fs?  Anyway, perhaps you could use that to make
> one 2.88mb and go...

I've got mkdosfs on my machine...  It's really pretty cool.  Make a FAT12
filesystem after doing a dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/diskimage bs=1024
count=2.88 or whatever you do to make a file the right size, make it a
loopback device, mount it, and format it.

--Danny, who'll look this up later tonight if no one else does it first. :)

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