From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) Subject: Re: Two suggestions .. comments welcome, please! Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 20:03:50 GMT
In article <1992Sep9.135155.21141@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <1992Sep9.050138.3606@utdallas.edu>, yuanyin@utdallas.edu (Yuan-Yin Wu) writes:
>
>| How about a program to 'edit' (alter) the boot image to suit you?
>| I'm uploading such a program to SunSite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming,
>| called chbootdev.tar.Z. You exec it in linux and will get what you want.
>| Note that it does NOT edit the floppy, but the bootimage itself.
>| There's a README in the file for a bit more detail.
>
> Or you could use the BPE (binary patch editor) program which works
>nicely, thanks. The source was uploaded to tsx-11 and banjo (yes that
>long ago) and the DOS binary is on most of the DOS arcives (I posted it
>several years ago to cbip).
And, as a reminder, there already exists a Linux solution on most (if
not all) Linux installations. The program is called setroot on the
latest root images by me, and was formerly called rootdev. It's
called 'rdev' on the MCC release.
Under DOS, as I said before, there are plenty of free binary editors
out there.
setroot will edit any image, whether it is stored on disk or sitting
there as a file. You could even mount your DOS partition and run
setroot on an image there....
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