Background: I am using pxelinux (with memdisk) on a linux server to allow some diskless clients to boot an MS-DOS boot image from LAN. This works fine for 1.44MB images. I also succeeded in creating a 2.88MB (floppy image) with help of dd (grab the 1.44MB bootsector) mtools (mformat a 2.88MB image file including the above bootsector) copying io.sys, msdos.sys, command.com to the just created and mounted image But I need an even larger DOS-Partition via boot from LAN. With my knowledges I reached the limit of 2.88MB by using mformat:

mformat -t 80 -s 36 -h 2 -C -B fddbootsector x: where x: is defined in ~/.mtoolsrc as the resulting image file.

I tried to increase the values in the mformat command, but the resulting image was no longer bootable. I tried to use an MBR of an existing HDD and the 8MB DOS-partition, not bootable. What am I doing wrong? Any help possible? At least, do I have the chance to go up to a 3.84MB floppy image? For this I did not find any cylinder, sector, head numbers on the web. Do you know the correct settings for such a floppy? And, very important, I don't have any high capacity floppy disk drives at hand. I try to create a floppy image to use it for boot from lan. Thanks for any help. __________________________________________________________ Mit WEB.DE FreePhone mit hoechster Qualitaet ab 0 Ct./Min. weltweit telefonieren! http://freephone.web.de/?mc=021201 _______________________________________________ fdutils mailing list fdutils@tux.org http://www.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/fdutils