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On 3 Apr 1997, Piet Ruyssinck wrote:

> I need to turn /dev/hda1 into a bootable M$-DOS partition from within
> linux, so after the
>  /sbin/mkdosfs -s 16 /dev/hda1
> I should do the linux equivalent of
>  SYS C:
> 
> Does such a utility exist ?

You might be able to do it from dosemu, but that requires a copy of MS-DOS
to set up.

You could also put freedos on it.

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In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.970404015540.5152A-100000@greenbush.greenbush.lan>,
Paul Wade  <paulwade@greenbush.com> wrote:
>On 3 Apr 1997, Piet Ruyssinck wrote:
>
>> I need to turn /dev/hda1 into a bootable M$-DOS partition from within
>> linux, so after the
>>  /sbin/mkdosfs -s 16 /dev/hda1
>> I should do the linux equivalent of
>>  SYS C:
>> 
>> Does such a utility exist ?
>
>You might be able to do it from dosemu, but that requires a copy of MS-DOS
>to set up.

I suppose the cannonical answer here is:

	1) Put DOS installation floppy in first diskette drive (/dev/fd0).
	2) mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
	3) cd /mnt
	4) mv autoexec.bat autoexec.old
	5) echo sys C: > autoexec.bat
	   (Assuming one of the normal versions of DOS where the root
	   directory of the installation disk contains all the DOS utilites
	   - back when the world was young and DOS fit on one disk)
	6) cd;umount /dev/fd0;reboot

The real question is: Why do we want to do this?  What's the real issue?

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Paul Wade (paulwade@greenbush.com) wrote:

: You might be able to do it from dosemu, but that requires a copy of MS-DOS
: to set up.

: You could also put freedos on it.

I used opendos for my DosEMU. Most things have worked with various 
degrees of success. Some peole do not get much out of it though.

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