A couple tips. If you only need 100MB or so, you can mount and work on the USB image like (https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.3/official/FD13-FullUSB.zip) like so.
``` # sudo mount -tvfat -o loop,offset=32256 FD13FULL.img /mnt/target/ ``` There used to be a boot.bss or some such mbr backup file. I don't know which package that was. I know one gets built when you build the kernel. With that bootsector & mtools installed on Linux, you can write boot sectors to drives (https://linux.die.net/man/1/mformat) with mformat. On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 12:32 PM Harald Arnesen <skog...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Patrick McCavery [23/06/2023 18.13]: > > > If I could run format \s right from Linux, I could use all of my > > existing toolchain and I would not have to run this command on a USB key > > from within qemu. > > > > Could this be done? > > Get a copy of the bootsector from a DOS disk, store it somewhere on your > Linux machine, format your disk from Linux, dd the bootsector to the disk. > -- > Hilsen Harald > Слава Україні! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
