xenial (1) mkfatimage16.1.gz

NAME

       mkfatimage16 - generate a virtual drive image suitable for DOSEMU

SYNOPSIS

       mkfatimage16  [  -b  bsectfile  ] [{ -t tracks | -k Kbytes }] [ -l volume-label ] [ -f outfile ] [ -p ] [
       file...  ]

DESCRIPTION

       mkfatimage16 creates a hdimage file for DOSEMU that is pre-loaded with the files specified on the command
       line.   The  output is either written to stdout (hence do not forget to append " > hdimagefile", else you
       will see garbage on the screen) or to the file specified by the -f option. For the latter  you  may  also
       use option -p in order to force padding up to the given size. This padding will result in so-called holes
       on an ext2-FS, hence the actual disk usage will not be greater.  The file created  by  mkfatimage16  then
       can be used as a virtual drive, when defined in /etc/dosemu.conf.  As long as -k is not given, the number
       of heads is always 4 and you have 17 sectors per head else it is adjusted accordingly.  To vary the size,
       you may either use the -t option or specify the total amount of Kbytes via -k option.

       All  files given behind the options will be copied onto the hdimage. In addition a DOSEMU suitable master
       boot record (MBR) is established and via option -b you may specify a boot sector that  gets  inserted  as
       first  sector  of  the  partition.  To  later  access the hdimage outside of DOSEMU you should use mtools
       (/etc/mtools.conf parameters partition=1 and offset=128).

OPTIONS

       -b file
              Insert the first 512 bytes of file into the bootsector of the partition.

       -t num Make the virtual disk have num tracks. This is the one way to define the size of the disk.

       -k Kbytes
              Make the virtual disk be Kbytes in size. Using -t and -k are mutual exclusive.

       -l label
              insert label as volume label for the disk.

       -f outfile
              The hdimage is written to outfile instead of stdout

       -p     Pad the hdimage with zero up to the total size given by -t or -k (only in conjunction with -f).

AUTHOR

       Pasi Eronen (pe@iki.fi) and Peter Wainwright.

BUGS

       This program doesn't support name mangling and does very little checking  for  non-DOS  filenames.   Disk
       full condition isn't detected (and probably causes erratic behaviour).  Duplicate files aren't detected.

AVAILABILITY

       Comes with DOSEMU

SEE ALSO

       dosemu(1), xdosemu(1), mtools(1)