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Format for the Hard Disk image that SYSLinux can boot.
jbaugher at wideopenwest
Apr 25, 2002, 8:44 AM
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I couldn't find this information on your site for SysLinux, and I'm
sorry to bother you with this, now, but I was wondering
what format of hard disk images SysLinux supports. Is it a raw format,
or a format like drive image or ghost.

Thank you for your time,

Joseph Baugher

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Format for the Hard Disk image that SYSLinux can boot. [ In reply to ]
jsiemes at web
Apr 25, 2002, 9:43 AM
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Hi,

don't post HTML here.

>I couldn’t find this information on your site for SysLinux, and I’m sorry >to bother you with this, now, but I was wondering

>whatformat of hard disk images SysLinuxsupports. Is it a raw format, or a >format like drive image or ghost.

the memdisk interface (and AFAIK this is the only thing that deals
with image files) supports floppy or hard disk images. All these are raw
format, so you'll get a floppy image with 'dd if=/dev/fd0 of=image'
and a hard disk image with 'dd if=/dev/hda of=image'. I don't know
what ghost uses.

Regards,

Josef

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Format for the Hard Disk image that SYSLinux can boot. [ In reply to ]
hpa at zytor
Apr 25, 2002, 10:37 AM
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JBaugher wrote:
> I couldn't find this information on your site for SysLinux, and I'm
> sorry to bother you with this, now, but I was wondering
>
> what format of hard disk images SysLinux supports. Is it a raw format,
> or a format like drive image or ghost.
>

It's an MS-DOS format: you need MBR+partition table+MS-DOS partition
(FAT12 or FAT16).

-hpa

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