dd image "auspacken

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:39:36 +0100, Enrique Perez-Terron staggered into the Black Sun and said:

I'm surprised that nobody's mentioned the appropriate mkisofs commands yet. "mkisofs -r -J -b floppyimage.raw -c boot.cat -o output.isopath-to-files" will write an ISO9660 file called "output.iso" containing floppyimage.raw as the -boot floppy and boot.cat as the -catalog, withpath-to-files on the ISO as well. You can burn this ISO file to a CD-R blank with whatever you want. Note that floppyimage.raw must be 1.44 or 2.88M in size; if you have the 1.7M Tom's RootBoot image, you need to get the 2.88M one instead.

I believe that some CD-burning programs for 'Doze have the -b and -c options, but they call them different things. Consult your manual for Acraptek Sleazy CD Cremator or whatever; it'll probably be under the keyword "bootable".

I think this snake in the grbutt is barking up the wrong tree. The OP doesn't need to fiddle with raw devices to burn a bootable CD. But:

HANDLE tapehandle; tapehandle=CreateFile("----.--Tape0", GENERICREAD GENERICWRITE, 0, 0, OPENEXISTING, NULL); if(tapehandle == INVALIDHANDLEVALUE) barf();* various tape-specific things like PrepareTape() are used instead of * ioctl() here. ReadFile() and WriteFile() get used on the handle. * It's fairly simple, just ... weird and verbose compared to the Unix * Way. *

See above. The functions used for *tapes* are documented, but sort-of hidden in MSDN. The functions used for *disks* may not be. Finding the device names can be the hard part; you can't "DIR-.-" or anything. ISTR that opendir()ing-.and trying to readdir() it didn't work either. *Sigh*, half-butteddev implementations make Baby Cthulhu cry....

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