very slight OT: creating a *bootable* MSDOS7 memstick

[Vlad D. Markov]

On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 12:39:55 -0400
TIM KELLERS <trkellers at gmail.com> wrote:

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#!/bin/sh

# empty the disk of all data
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=1m count=2

# Create a master boot record on the disk
gpart create -s MBR da0

# add a 64MB slice (partition) of a type
gpart add -s 64m -t \!6 da0      #fat16
#gpart add -s 64m -t \!12 da0   #fat32

# set the first slice (partitiion) active on dev da0
gpart set -a active -i 1 da0

# place the bootcode in the MBR
gpart bootcode -b /boot/mbr da0

# make file system nd install bootstrap code
newfs_msdos -B /home/vlad/mkDos/bootsect -o 63 /dev/da0s1
#newfs_msdos -F 32 -c 1 -S 512 -C 34089472  -B /home/vlad/mkDos/bootsect -o 63 /dev/da0s1

mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt
cd /mnt && touch IO.SYS MSDOS.SYS COMMAND.COM
cp /home/vlad/mkDos/dosFiles/* /mnt

umount /mnt
~


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