[ros-kernel] Floppy driver bug fixed!

[Aleksey Bragin]

Ah, I'm sorry then!
I thought these .bat's  are new files you just added :)

Could you please tell how to build it manually -- I mean which files should
be copied to the floppy disk, which bootsector, etc --- I'm eager to try
loading ROS from a floppy disk on my old P-133 laptop (which doesn't support
booting from cdrom).


Thanks for fast answer,
With the best regards,
Aleksey Bragin.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Kohl" <ekohl at rz-online.de>
To: "ReactOS Kernel List" <ros-kernel at reactos.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: [ros-kernel] Floppy driver bug fixed!


>
> "Aleksey Bragin" <aleksey at studiocerebral.com>:
>
>
> >             Hi Eric,
> > I've decided to try this feature recently, and here is what I
discovered:
> > (after updating tree from CVS and make clean, make).
> > 1. makeflop.bat doesn't create subdirs on the floppy disks, but create
> files
> > subsys, dlls, etc on the disk.
> > 2. Floppy must contain something bootable, but it doesn't. I thought
> mightbe
> > something like PCDOS or what should it be?
> > 3. path in makeflop.bat are not correct - services subfolder doesn't
> > containt dd, fs subfolders (should be changed to drivers, I think).
>
> Makedisk.bat, I guess you meant that, can not be used to build bootable
> floppy disks. It is a batch file to copy parts of reactos onto floppy disk
> for transfer to another machine. To make a long story short, bootflop.bat
> and makedisk.bat are outdated and should be removed as soon as possible.
>
> At this time, you need to build bootable floppy disks manually. We will
need
> to fix this and I think we should use mtools to create disk image files.
>
>
> Regards,
> Eric
>
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