FreeDOS boot flash¶

Create a FreeDOS based bootable usb-stick

• Download a FreeDOS image, i’ll use Balder for now.
  http://www.finnix.org/files/balder10.imz
• Prepare the usb-stick
• check partition (e.g cfdisk /dev/sdc)
• mkfs.msdos /dev/sdc1

Commands¶

zcat balder10.imz > balder10.img

dd if=/dev/zero of=boot-aacraid.img bs=1M count=16

mkfs.vfat boot-aacraid.img

qemu-system-i386 -boot a -fda balder10.img -hda boot-aacraid.img

A:\> fdisk

qemu-system-i386 -boot a -fda balder10.img -hda boot-aacraid.img

A:\> format c:
A:\> sys c:
A:\> xcopy /E /N a: c:

Check with¶

qemu -hda /dev/sdc

Источник:¶

http://www.meta.net.nz/~daniel/blog/2009/06/10/creating-a-dos-usb-bootdisk-under-linux/