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2007-06-06
2013-04-05
  • schaapmansz

    schaapmansz - 2007-06-06

    First-things-first Thnx a Lot for all the effort put in drbl. It is a beautifull tool for cloning.

    I have a question that may be a little offtopic. But perhaps someone can help me with it.
    Is it possible to adjust the freedos image? i would like to adjust the autoexec.bat and change the menu items. perhaps load some more dos-tooling.

    how can i modify all the files in fdos1440_drbl.img or perhaps make new one?
    how to create an freedos image.

     
    • Steven Shiau

      Steven Shiau - 2007-06-06

      freedos image is in /tftpboot/nbi_img/fdos1440_drbl.img in the server, you can use regular mount command to mount it, like
      mount -t vfat -o loop /tftpboot/nbi_img/fdos1440_drbl.img /mnt
      then you can "cd /mnt" to do whatever you want.
      One thing to remember, if you modify text file in that image, like /mnt/freedos/fdauto.bat, remember to use "unix2dos" command to convert it to dos format, otherwise it won't run normally.

       
    • schaapmansz

      schaapmansz - 2007-06-11

      That works just beautifully. Thanx for the awnser. I would like to ask one more question.

      Can i create my own dos boot image file and use it in clonezilla?
      I tried dd with an bootable dos floppy. It didn't work (it looped)
      What is the correct way to create an bootable dos image?

      http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/ (i would like to load barts network bootdisk)

       
      • Steven Shiau

        Steven Shiau - 2007-06-11

        If should work if the dos image is a raw image file. You can dump a image from your bootable floppy by dd (Linux), winimage (windows) or rawwrite for windows (http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite.htm).
        Just replace /tftpboot/nbi_img/fdos1440_drbl.img by your new image, or you can write a config block in /tftpboot/nbi_img/pxelinux.cfg/default.

         
    • schaapmansz

      schaapmansz - 2007-06-11

      Yes it is working. Thanx again.

       

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