[ros-kernel] Re: Testing ReactOS

[Guido de J. <gui...@ch...>]

Did you partition and format your disk image file?

If you only created the disk image file then it is just like an unpartitioned 
harddisk. You can do this exactly like a real harddisk: you boot up in Bochs 
with a bootable MSDOS or Win95 floppy disk on which you have also 'fdisk' and 
'format' (maybe you want some more tools, like an editor to create/change 
'autoexec.bat' for instance, but that's up to you). Then use 'fdisk' to 
partition the image and at the next boot, you can format it.

Once it's formatted you will be able to copy files onto the image.

On Sunday 28 October 2001 00:09, KJK::Hyperion wrote:
> Ok, with some voodoo the compilation went like a charm. Tested Bochs too,
> with the included Linux image and with MS-DOS 7.1, they both worked. The
> problem now is mtools: they need a setup, in the first place, and in the
> tutorial this wasn't mentioned. So I created the .mtoolsrc, but I get only
> "Can't read boot sector" or "Not a DOS image" messages. I don't know any
> other way to manipulate disk images (you can't directly "mount" them as
> disk devices, for example - apparently only directories will do), and Bochs
> won't directly mount disk devices (shame, shame). Any ideas?
>
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