Oleg Strikov | 5 Feb 2009 21:58
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Prex bootable floppy image building system (Linux)

Dear Prex users and developers (especially Kohsuke Ohtani)!

I've started hacking Prex OS under my GNU/Linux system and i was very
surprised that there is no official Prex Building HOW-TO for
linux-based :) hackers.
I've written compact sh script that can compose ./prexos and
./boot/i386/utils/bootsect/bootsect.bin into bootable floppy image,
that can be started e.g. using "qemu -fda NAME".

You can find mk_floppy_image.sh script at the end of my post and now
let's discuss how you can use it.

1. Copy mk_floppy_image.sh into prex root directory (e.g.
/prex-0.8.1/mk_floppy_image.sh)

2. Configure and build prex image (prexos). How to do it:
http://prex.sourceforge.net/doc/build.html

3. Start mk_floppy_image.sh with one parameter - desired floppy image name.
   [EXAMPLE] ./mk_floppy_image.sh prex.img

4. USE your bootable prex.img image file
   [qemu EXAMPLE] qemu -fda prex.img -localtime

Good luck!
Yours, Oleg "Tigger" Strikov

P.S. Comments required :)

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