Re: problem netbooting 286s

[markus@infoscape.com]

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Gero Kuhlmann writes:
 > > Also, any chance of allowing a "floppy size" to be specified to
 > > mknbi-dos instead of defaulting to 1.44 Mb when creating from a
 > > directory?
 >
 > You cannot have a size different from the standard floppy sizes (e.g. 360k,
 > 1.2M etc.) due to limitations within DOS. Why do you want to have a smaller
 > floppy image size?

I have not checked the code recently, so maybe it is already
there. But I can see why Ken might want to do this. This way he can
make sure that he only uses as much memory as he has to. How about
installing a ramdisk that occupies a user-specified amount of disk
space, but when DOS inquires about the size it will always be told
that this is a 1.44MB disk. All the extra (non-existent) sectors could
be marked as bad blocks in the FAT.


Markus

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