Re: Writing fat16 partition from image file

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From: Brian McCauley
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 00:00

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"Darren Mackay" <dcmackay@tech-center.com> writes:

> Is is possible to this in linux?
> 
> 1. Create an image file of a fat16 partition.

I tried the other day and failed.  mkfs.msdos seems to require
knowlege of the disk geometry.  An image file has no geometry.  You
could of course use a parition then read it into a file.

> 2. Can the image file be written directly to empty drive space

I'm assuming if you need geometry to create a FAT16 fs this info is
actually needed by something.  I'd guess this means that an image file
from a parition with one geometry would fail if you wrote it to one
with another.

> 3. How can I set the active partition using a script

There's a program called "activate" out there somewhere but I've not
looked at it for several years.  It exists (or at least existed) for
DOS and Linux.

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From: Brian McCauley <B.A.McCauley@bham.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Writing fat16 partition from image file
Date: 1998/08/04
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