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Date:      Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:51:54 +0700
From:      Victor Sudakov <sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: newfs_msdos -B
Message-ID:  <20070816085154.GA2045@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200708160539.l7G5dsSl023507@smtpclu-7.EUnet.yu>
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Nikola Lecic wrote:

[dd]

> 
> Apart from install CDs, the only bootable image that FreeDOS-1.0
> actually offers for download is 1.4M fdboot.img:
> 
>   http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/
> 
> Otherwise, I don't see any other way to obtain sectors of the full
> system but to actually install FreeDOS somewhere (on virtual machine or
> on a real slice).

I think if we have a floppy image, we can obtain the VBR with
something like 

dd if=fdboot.img bs=512 count=1 

i.e. the very first sector of the floppy.

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru



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