From: hallvard@immhp3.marina.unit.no (Hallvard Paulsen) Subject: Re: Making a boot disk (please help!) Date: 4 May 1992 07:43:14 GMT
In article <56272@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt0178a@prism.gatech.EDU (Jim Burns) writes:
|> in article <1992May1.080035.25648@ugle.unit.no>, hallvard@immhp3.marina.unit.no (Hallvard Paulsen) says:
|>
|> > The part of editing the bootimage disk I just cant get. I've
|> > got the pboot.exe dos program and it keeps asking for a filename? On my
|> > bootdisk there *are* *no* filenames that dos can recognize. I've no dowloaded
|>
|> It's a lot easier if you modify the bootimage *before* you rawrite it to
|> disk. If that is not possible, use debug to edit the boot sector (Warning:
|> some versions of MSDOS will not edit a disk if it does not have a valid
|> boot sector - try another version):
Thank you Jim. I finaly figured it out myself late saturday evening! :-))
Sometimes I just think things are much more difficult than they realy are!
Anyway I now got a Linux (0.95a) runing em(acs), gcc and mtools. So
far it looks real good!
Hallvard (the horrible) Paulsen