Alter Fat:s and directory entry

[bubach]

Hello, am i trying to write a simple tool for kernel copying to floppy.
The thing is that i want the file to be at the very beginning of the data area, so that the bootsector don?t have to search the whole floppy.
I have tried to alter the FAT:s and directory entry to show me a "fake" (haven?t written the kernel to beginning of dataarea yet) file of 50kb in size, but Windows shows me that i have used 6kb of space and no file.

For more info/code please have a look on this thread:
http://board.flatassembler.net/viewtopic.php?t=2583

thanks in advance..

/ Christoffer

[ASHLEY4]

bubach do you want a program to do the thing you want or do you want to write it yourself ?.
As if i understand what you want theres a program in bootprog that does that, but its coded in pascal.

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ASHLEY4.

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[bubach]

i rather code it myself.. i haven?t seen any tools in the bootprog zip.. i guess i can look again, even if i do not speak pascal..

[EDIT] thoose tools does not do the things i want..