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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "rvijay07" <rvijay07 AT myway.com>
 
> --- On Wed 03/09, David Moberg < davidjmoberg AT lycos.com > wrote:
> From: David Moberg [mailto: davidjmoberg AT lycos.com]
> To: rvijay07 AT myway.com
> Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 17:03:30 -0500
> Subject: Re: [BL] Re: How to boot from a non-booting bootable CD-ROM
> 
> bit)<br><br>Hmmm. This appears to be a 2.88mb floppy disk image. If 
> you have<br>mkisofs, you can use<br><br>mkisofs -o bl2.iso -b 
> bl2.10-2880.img bl2.10-2880.img<br><br>which will convert it into a 
> bootable iso. Burn bl2.iso to a CD.<br>I suppose you could also 
> format a floppy at that size and use dd<br>to copy it on.
> 
> 
> I tried this as adviced. No, BL2 still gives the same problems as 
> BL3.

Did the ISO itself actually boot?

> This was just a small pet project that I decided to try from 
> general interest. That is all, no big deal.
> 
> The above command is a learning experience for me. Here are some 
> questions, can I format a regular floppy to hold a 2.88 floppy 
> image ?

Yes. The disk and drive have to be near-perfect, though, for it to
actually work. If it doesn't work, you may have problems booting.
fdformat and setfdprms have options to switch to 2.88 I think.

> If yes does this mean that the whold BL2 will be on a 
> single floppy and I don't need two floppies ?

Yes. You need to use the one 2.88 image that you have. If you want
to do the same with BL3, you'll need to make some modifications.

> mkisofs -o bl2.iso -b bl2.10-2880.img bl2.10-2880.img
> Also, please explain how the above command works ? Why is 
> bl2.10-2880.img repeated twice ?

-o bl2.iso just says where the output iso goes. -b filename
designates filename as a bootable floppy disk image (use your
favorite search engine to look for "Readme.Eltorito" for more
details). It's repeated twice because the -b option only takes
pathnames relative to the resulting ISO root directory, but the
second time it indicates things to go in the root directory.
(Is that clear?)

> Thanks in advance.

You're welcome. Eric Raymond's tips for OSS newbies says "don't
say TIA if you want an answer", but I think the BL list is an
exception. :)
David
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