Re: [SLUG] Bochs, Freedos, disk images

From: Mario Lombardo (mario@alienscience.com)
Date: Fri Dec 30 2005 - 11:51:00 EST


On Friday 30 December 2005 01:55, Paul M Foster wrote:
> This is a real long shot, because I doubt anyone is using Bochs. But
> here goes:
>
> I have an existing raft of programs and file I've been using under
> Dosemu, but I'm migrating to Bochs. In order to use Bochs, I need to
> feed it a disk images where the stuff is. I downloaded a 10M freedos
> bootable disk image from the Bochs website. Great. But I need to get all
> my program and data files onto that image. Mount -o loop won't read it
> as a msdos, vfat or anything else. I don't know how to use mtools to
> copy a file onto an image file.
>
> Does anyone know how to get files onto a pristine disk image under these
> circumstances?

I know I'm coming from left field here, but have you tried dosbox
(http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/)? It can mount drives. I used it to install
a game that was ornery under all other DOS installs. I don't know how it
compares performance-wise, but it was super easy to set up.

/mario

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