Re: Write bootsector only

[Lionel Pinkhard <lionelp@worldonline.co.za>]

Well, this way works fine! IF your program is less than 512 bytes! :-) But
does anybody know of a way to actually make it bigger than that? Maybe
jumping to another location or something? But I think this would mean
actually creating a filesystem for the program.

Ciao guys,

Lionel

P.s. If you're not writing in Assembly, you're DOOMED! C code is way too
big, by a few kilobytes!

On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Gerco Dries wrote:

> To write your own bootsector to disk, I only know of one way:
> 
> Write a small program that does it. I have never seen such a program for
> DOS, for my amiga, plenty, but not DOS.
> 
> Gerco Dries.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Lionel Pinkhard <lionelp@worldonline.co.za>
> To: <gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 1980 11:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [OT] Need bootable MS-DOS 6.22 disk image
> 
> 
> > Well, I still have my Dos 6.22 disks, but they are 1.44MB 3" format, so I
> > don't think I can help you there, but maybe. If you have Linux, or some
> > other Unix-variant, you can just copy '/dev/fd0' to a file, and you have
> an
> > image, otherwise, you might want to use something like WinImage (requires
> > Windows), but I don't know of a Dos program that does it, I also kinda
> need
> > some program to write a boot sector to a disk (for my own OS), so if you
> > know of something to copy just the boot sector, PLEASE let me know! And if
> > you need more help, ASK!
> >
> > Ciao,
> >
> > Lionel
> >
> > ----------
> > > From: Neato <nocirckids@nocirc.org>
> > > To: OpenWindows List <owp-developers@lists.sourceforge.net>;
> > gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com; fd-dev@topica.com
> > > Subject: [OT] Need bootable MS-DOS 6.22 disk image
> > > Date: Friday, September 1, 2000 6:27 PM
> > >
> > > Does anyone have/know where i can get/is able to make a rawriteable
> image
> > of
> > > an ms-dos 6.22 boot disk? (360k 5 1/4")
> > >
> > > (and also, does anyone know what files go on what disks? I have all the
> > > files backed up but lost my list of where they go.)
> > >
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