5 Feb 2009 21:58
Prex bootable floppy image building system (Linux)
Oleg Strikov <oleg.strikov <at> gmail.com>
2009-02-05 20:58:26 GMT
2009-02-05 20:58:26 GMT
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 :) ###############(Continue reading)
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