From: Jim M. <jmi...@ya...> - 2009-10-15 07:42:46
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I believe the lzma compression tool is provided as a contributed file by the mingw compiler (http://sf.net/projects/mingw/files), but only if you install the compiler via the installer and then install "xz" which is the lzma tool. it is the gnu/gcc compiler set and includes fortran 77, ada, etc ported to windows and generates windows executables (2000/2003/xp/2008/vista/7). in case you want to make vista/7 compatible executables, I have created a batch file wrapper for g++ which upon command adds the necessary xml manifest resource to the executable. http://JesusnJim.com/programming/common-compiler-switches.html also 7-zip can uncompress lzma, but I don't think you can choose lzma compression for archiving. ________________________________ From: Kevin O'Connor <ke...@ko...> To: fre...@li... Sent: Tue, September 8, 2009 1:16:39 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] SeaBIOS boots FreeDOS from flash On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 06:56:45PM +0200, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > > $ cbfstool coreboot-qemu-freedos-20090818.bin print > I read about the tool, just don't got a Linux system. Guess that Linux > Coreboot LiveCD will someday be around, hosting a live Linux, Coreboot > environment, Flashrom and QEMU on it, so coreboot images can be created > for both the actual system's BIOS, and for QEMU to allow experimentation > first before applying same compile procedure to your motherboard. To > have an entire Linux around just to remove/add components to a 512KB > file sounds strange as well. For Linux, it's probably easiest to download qemu or vmware and run a standard linux distro (eg, fedora/ubuntu) in a vm. >Is the LZMA compression done by anything? > Is 7-zip suitable? The lzma compression is done by the linux tool "lzma" - I don't think 7-zip will work. > My goal was to have working software in flash to allow disk > partitioning. Devload loads .sys drivers from commandline, > sushucdx/uide.sys for CD-ROM SeaBIOS should be able to provide cdrom access directly. -Kevin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Fre...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel |