Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 12:58:58 -0600 From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: README.booting_dos questions... Message-ID: <19970327125858.11488@right.PCS> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970326233538.2621d-100000@thelab.hub.org>; from The Hermit Hacker on Mar 03, 1997 at 12:31:28AM -0400 References: <199703270327.NAA05498@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <Pine.NEB.3.96.970326233538.2621d-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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On Mar 03, 1997 at 12:31:28AM -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> The README mentions using 'dd', but doesn't do more then that
> (I know, old docs)...since my familiarity with dd is limited, I just
> wiped together a quick C program to call 'truncate' to create a 11MB
> "dos file system" for me to work with, and now fdisk works...format is
> next.
dd if=/dev/zero of=dos_drv bs=1k count=<size in K>
>
> Finally, for this email, I can fdisk the 'file', but I can't seem
> to format it.
>
> The fdisk completes as expected (crashes doscmd), and the format
> seems to work okay, but if I do a 'dir c:', I get 'Invalid media type
> reading drive C...
Does the format command give you an error at all?
What version of DOS are you trying to boot off of?
--
Jonathan
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