Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:23:57 +0000 From: Geoff Buckingham <geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: How to make a bootable 4GB dos slice from FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20021217102357.A16193@chuggalug.clues.com>
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I am working at the moment using FreeBSD as a replacement for DOS in a PXE booted buildserver enviroment. (It is just too hard to keep a sensible amount of RAM free after load the MS CIFS/SMB stuff and an ethernet driver) However I need to produce a bootable 4GB DOS partition for the next stage of the process. Currently I do this by dd'ing a gzip'd image of such a fs onto the disk. This takes a while, and I would like to use mewfs_msdos and copy in msdos.sys io.sys and command.com. However I need to find some documentation for precisely where DOS expects to find these files. There also appear to be limitations to the fs tuneables that are acceptable I am unable to 'SYS' a 4GB filesystem created with simply 'newfs /dev/da0s2' (SYS used is FAT32 aware). Anybody got a URL for this stuff? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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