mkfatimage16 (1)
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NAME
mkfatimage16 - generate a virtual drive image suitable for DOSEMUSYNOPSIS
mkfatimage16 [ -b bsectfile ] [{ -t tracks | -k Kbytes }] [ -l volume-label ] [ -f outfile ] [ -p ] [ file... ]DESCRIPTION
mkfatimage16 creates a hdimage file for DOSEMU that is pre-loaded with the files specified on the command line. The output is either written to stdout (hence do not forget to append " > hdimagefile", else you will see garbage on the screen) or to the file specified by the -f option. For the latter you may also use option -p in order to force padding up to the given size. This padding will result in so-called holes on an ext2-FS, hence the actual disk usage will not be greater. The file created by mkfatimage16 then can be used as a virtual drive, when defined in /etc/dosemu.conf. As long as -k is not given, the number of heads is always 4 and you have 17 sectors per head else it is adjusted accordingly. To vary the size, you may either use the -t option or specify the total amount of Kbytes via -k option.All files given behind the options will be copied onto the hdimage. In addition a DOSEMU suitable master boot record (MBR) is established and via option -b you may specify a boot sector that gets inserted as first sector of the partition. To later access the hdimage outside of DOSEMU you should use mtools (/etc/mtools.conf parameters partition=1 and offset=128).
OPTIONS
- -b file
- Insert the first 512 bytes of file into the bootsector of the partition.
- -t num
- Make the virtual disk have num tracks. This is the one way to define the size of the disk.
- -k Kbytes
- Make the virtual disk be Kbytes in size. Using -t and -k are mutual exclusive.
- -l label
- insert label as volume label for the disk.
- -f outfile
- The hdimage is written to outfile instead of stdout
- -p
-
Pad the hdimage with zero up to the total size given by
-t
or
-k
(only in conjunction with
-f).