hello,

first sorry for my english cause i come from germany.

After 4 days of reading topics in forums i have made my stick so how i dream it (Multiboot with extras). But now i have some little problems to start a program that i init in menu.lst

I trying the second day, but it will not work cause i am not a linux freak......

I put some isos and the lines for menu.lst that works great, but i have a dos program that i need permanently and i downt know how i can start it.

I tried it with making a iso, but after it boots to dos come an error cause the autoexec search a cd in x:.

The Dos-prog isnt large (1MB) but I cant pack it to a floppy image, cause out of space by 1,44MB when i make a bootable dos image.

I have tried with virtual floppy to make a 1,72MB or 2,88MB floppy image, but i cant format it in xp, it hangs and do nothing.

So my questions are.....

Can anybody tell me what entry i need in menu.lst to start a Dos-prog that i have in the folder "images" in the root of USB?

Or can anybody tell me what i must write in the AUTOEXEC.BAT to start the dos-prog from the "image"-folder after the Floppy-image boots to Dos?

Or what entry i need in the AUTOEXEC.BAT for X: that the iso can boot the Prog?

The orig AUTOEXEC.BAT from the Prog that is on a cd has this entries....

----------------------------------------------

@echo off

echo. Dos-Prog 8.05

PATH A:\

SET DIRCMD=/O:GN /L

LH A:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:OEMCD001 /L:X

a:\my\mouse.com

x:\my\Dos-prog.exe

------------------------------------------------

I hope for some answers.....

You can make a 2.88 Mb floppy image allright.

Maybe there is some error in the procedure you are following.

You can use IMDISK allright:

http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html#ImDisk

Maybe easier would be if you create your 2.88 Mb image with this:

http://www.nu2.nu/mkbt/

http://www.nu2.nu/mkbt/#buildimage

http://www.nu2.nu/bfi/

Or with the Shareware WinImage:

http://www.winimage.com/

Which actual type/release of DOS would the image use?

What is the "dos-prog" ? Can you name it and possibly provide a link to it's home site?

jaclaz

i dont know what release of dos its use. It boots on every pc. where can i see it?

Its partitions magic 8 in DOS-format. I need it cause private i repair and reinstall pc´s.

And i dont want other partitions prog. i have some, but PM8 in DOS-mode is for me the easiest and fastest mode for me.

I become it from a all in one dvd for years. There was a option to make a iso image separately for PM8 and ERD-Commander 1+2.

From there i have the cd. I dont need ERD-Commander just PM8

I have just tried the ImDisk what you wrote. But there is the same problem. In GUI-mode when i mount a new floppy 2,88MB and klick "FORMAT" the windows format-manager opens. The fields "Filesize" and "File-system" are empty and its nothing i can select. Then i klick "make DOS-bootable" and when i klick start its do nothing. Have i a problem on my XP-installation?

This problem i have with virtual floppy too. And WinImage brings always an error (by 1,44MB too)

Edited February 13, 201016 yr by LopoTRI

Problem is that XP will only be able to create a 1.44 floppy with "Bootable MS-DOS" in it's "Format" dialog.

In Winimage:

Options->Settings->Image->Uncheck all check boxes and set compression to None

File->New->Format 2.88

File->Save As->288.ima

Image->Bootsector Properties->Windows 95/98 ->OK

Image->Inject-> (Inject FIRST, and in this order: IO.SYS MSDOS.SYS COMMAND.COM CONFIG.SYS AUTOEXEC.BAT) theln all other files

File->Save

OR, open a copy of your floppy image, then:

Image->Chnage Format->2.88

Save as

Otherwise get these:

http://www.nu2.nu/mkbt/

http://www.nu2.nu/bfi/

In IMdisk:

Mount New

Input 1474560 Bytes in "Size of Virtual Disk" set "device type" Floppy Input Letter "B"

Select drive

Format->Check "Create bootable MS-DOS"

Select drive -> Save Image->C:\bootfiles\144.img

Open a Command prompt:

mkbt -c B: C:\bootfiles\bootsect.bin

bfi -v -t=288 -b=C:\bootfiles\bootsect.bin -f=C:\bootfiles\288.img

In IMdisk:

Mount New

Select C:\bootfiles\288.img set "device type" Floppy

Open the mounted drive and copy files to it

Unmount both drives

This way you will have the 288.img with the "XP MS-DOS" bootsector (please read as "DOS 8.0/Windows Me").

You can use mkbt on "another" floppy image (like the one you already have in your hands) to get it's bootsector.

jaclaz

P.S.: However you are right, there is something that looks like "not right" when you try to format/extend a floppy image in IMDISK, I'll submit the issue to Olof.

Edited February 13, 201016 yr by jaclaz

Just checked, VFD:

http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html

can create/mount AND format 2.88 images allright (but of course they'll have NT bootsector, so you need anyway an utility to change the bootsector).

Let's see what's comes out of this:

http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=10410

jaclaz

Thanks for help, but yesterday i found a topic in the web, where i read how to make 2 floppy images with winimage to one and make a bootable cd.

Thats not what i want, but i follow the steps to mount the image then to make it to a 2,88MB and with Ultra-iso copy the Bootsector from the orig image.

I tried again with winimage and errors comes on saving, till i found that the errors comes when i klick in the GUI at the "save"-Button or at the "write to Disk and save"-Button. Then i try the "save as" and woalla it saves. Then i copied the PM8 and components to the 2,88MB image and with "save as" its saves too. At last i edit the AUTOEXEC.BAT.

After finishing the image i try it and i made a breakdance when my monitor show me the GUI of PM8

It Works now on a 2,88MB Image ! ! !

Thx again.......

Edited February 13, 201016 yr by LopoTRI

It Works now on a 2,88MB Image ! ! !

Thx again.......

Good.

jaclaz