MKFATIMAGE16(1) Make HDIMAGE for DOSEMU MKFATIMAGE16(1)

mkfatimage16 - generate a virtual drive image suitable for DOSEMU

mkfatimage16 [ -b bsectfile ] [{ -t tracks | -k Kbytes }] [ -l volume-label ] [ -f outfile ] [ -p ] [ file... ]

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).

Insert the first 512 bytes of file into the bootsector of the partition.
Make the virtual disk have num tracks. This is the one way to define the size of the disk.
Make the virtual disk be Kbytes in size. Using -t and -k are mutual exclusive.
insert label as volume label for the disk.
The hdimage is written to outfile instead of stdout
Pad the hdimage with zero up to the total size given by -t or -k (only in conjunction with -f).

Pasi Eronen (pe@iki.fi) and Peter Wainwright.

This program doesn't support name mangling and does very little checking for non-DOS filenames. Disk full condition isn't detected (and probably causes erratic behaviour). Duplicate files aren't detected.

Comes with DOSEMU

dosemu(1), xdosemu(1), mtools(1)

September, 1998 Version ALPHA 0.98