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Gottfried wrote:

>is there a way to create a (FAT12) boot sector image (for later use on a
>bootable CD) on a PC without a floppy drive and Windows XP? I tried but
>sys needs a target dir...
>  
>
SYS A: BOOTSECT.BIN BOOTONLY

>Thanks!
>Gottfried Haider (please CC me as I am not subscribed)
>
Please subscribe.
Lucho

>> is there a way to create a (FAT12) boot sector image (for later use
>> on a bootable CD) on a PC without a floppy drive and Windows XP? I
>> tried but sys needs a target dir...
> SYS A: BOOTSECT.BIN BOOTONLY
First I get a warning that the application tries to access the hard disk
directly, If I press Ignore I get
-- snip --
Processing boot sector...
Reading old bootsector from drive X:

Überlauf bei Division
-- snip --
(Überlauf bei Division is German for Overflow at Division)

I entered SYS X: [...] because in fact, I have a floppy drive but it's
broken and I don't feel like buying a new one in the age of USB sticks
;)

Any ideas?

>> Gottfried Haider (please CC me as I am not subscribed)
> Please subscribe.
Will do so soon, but until then please... ;)

Thanks for your response!
Gottfried Haider

OK, Gottfried, carbon-copying to your e-mail address for the last time ;-)

>>>is there a way to create a (FAT12) boot sector image (for later use
>>>on a bootable CD) on a PC without a floppy drive and Windows XP? I
>>>tried but sys needs a target dir...
>>>      
>>>
>>SYS A: BOOTSECT.BIN BOOTONLY
>>    
>>
>First I get a warning that the application tries to access the hard disk
>directly, If I press Ignore I get
>-- snip --
>Processing boot sector...
>Reading old bootsector from drive X:
>
>Ьberlauf bei Division
>-- snip --
>(Ьberlauf bei Division is German for Overflow at Division)
>
>I entered SYS X: [...] because in fact, I have a floppy drive but it's
>broken and I don't feel like buying a new one in the age of USB sticks
>;)
>
>Any ideas?
>
Sorry I didn't understand that you don't have a floppy drive. Maybe your 
hard disk is A: and that's why you get this message?! Sorry, it seems 
that you'll have to find another PC with a floppy drive then because SYS 
needs to know the old boot sector data in order to create a new boot 
sector. As a last resort, I can e-mail you the boot sector I just 
created on this W2K3.

Lucho

> Sorry I didn't understand that you don't have a floppy drive. Maybe
> your hard disk is A: and that's why you get this message?! Sorry, it
> seems that you'll have to find another PC with a floppy drive then
> because SYS needs to know the old boot sector data in order to create
> a new boot sector. As a last resort, I can e-mail you the boot sector
I ended up creating the boot sector myself from the sources :P
( nasm -dISFAT12 boot.asm -ofat12com.bin )

Thanks for your help and CC'ing me though ;)
Gottfried

Gottfried wrote:

>>Sorry I didn't understand that you don't have a floppy drive. Maybe
>>your hard disk is A: and that's why you get this message?! Sorry, it
>>seems that you'll have to find another PC with a floppy drive then
>>because SYS needs to know the old boot sector data in order to create
>>a new boot sector. As a last resort, I can e-mail you the boot sector
>>    
>>
>I ended up creating the boot sector myself from the sources :P
>( nasm -dISFAT12 boot.asm -ofat12com.bin )
>  
>
But did you update the boot sector data fields by hand then? I don't 
know if a binary file will get through, but let's try. Enclosed is the 
boot sector I created here (for an 1.44 MB floppy).

>Thanks for your help and CC'ing me though ;)
>
You're welcome!
Lucho