Subject: bootable USB flash drive. how?
To: tech-userlevel <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Dave <dgriffi@cs.csubak.edu>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 03/05/2004 00:47:37
I think I'm clear on how to make a bootable USB flash drive using ffs.
Does anyone here know how to do this using the msdos filesystem?
newfs_msdos -B foo -F 32 /dev/rsd0e doesn't work.  "foo" == kernel.sys or
sys.com, both from FreeDOS (http://www.freedos.org).

# newfs_msdos -B kernel.sys -F 32 /dev/rsd0e
newfs_msdos: kernel.sys: inappropriate file type or format


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David Griffith
dgriffi@cs.csubak.edu