Tutorial on making floppy images on a windows image creator?

kayode · Post by **kayode** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 10:09 am

Hi,
I've been having trouble with making disk images.
I was wondering if anyone has a tutorial on the steps of making a disk image with the bootloader on it instead of that which the disk image utility places on the image?

Thanks.

jerryleecooper · Post by **jerryleecooper** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 1:57 pm

You mean, using dd if=bootloader of=diskimage bs=512 count=2880 ?
Don't forget to add more than 1.44mb of garbage data after your bootloader file using cat. Example:

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cat bootloader kernel garbage > bootloader.img
dd if=bootloader.img of=diskimage bs=512 count=2880

To copy a the image to a floppy, use dd if=diskimage of=\\.\a: