Tutorial About BootProg?

[Nathan]

Hello,
I was wondering if someone could make a tutorial about how to use and install BootProg, because I'm having a lot of programs when trying to install it to the boot sector, the program used to write the data to the floppy, keeps saying that my floppy has a FAT16 partition, not FAT12, but I think this is because I'm using Windows XP.

Best Regards,
Nathan Paulino Campos

[Combuster]

Why should we make a tutorial on something that does not work?

Edit: I tried to verify your complaints: Windows is not broken. In fact, using bootprog to read the bootsector yields the correct result. Which brings us to the other point: WTF are you using a DOS application

[Nathan]

Why should we make a tutorial on something that does not work?

Edit: I tried to verify your complaints: Windows is not broken. In fact, using bootprog to read the bootsector yields the correct result. Which brings us to the other point: WTF are you using a DOS application

Hmm, then I'm going to try by using VMWare emulating MS-DOS 6.22...

[Andr3w]

You are crazy. Use BFI.

[gravaera]

Hi:

Nathan, I think the video in this link will be useful to you. It's not long either; just fourteen seconds. Please take the time to watch it.

Title:"The most inspiring thing ever said..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVVsDIv98TA

--All the best,
gravaera.

[bobmorton]

Hi:

Nathan, I think the video in this link will be useful to you. It's not long either; just fourteen seconds. Please take the time to watch it.

Title:"The most inspiring thing ever said..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVVsDIv98TA

--All the best,
gravaera.

Lolz. I like it.

But Nathan just try to do what qandrew's said, use BFI.

[Nathan]

Hi:

Nathan, I think the video in this link will be useful to you. It's not long either; just fourteen seconds. Please take the time to watch it.

Title:"The most inspiring thing ever said..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVVsDIv98TA

--All the best,
gravaera.

Lolz. I like it.

But Nathan just try to do what qandrew's said, use BFI.

You are crazy. Use BFI.

Just one question: What is BFI?

[Solar]

Valid question, I admit. My first couple of Google attempts turned up empty, too. But a couple of clicks later:

http://www.nu2.nu/bfi/ - a floppy image tool. I assume that's what qandrew meant.

[Andr3w]

Valid question, I admit. My first couple of Google attempts turned up empty, too. But a couple of clicks later:

http://www.nu2.nu/bfi/ - a floppy image tool. I assume that's what qandrew meant.

Yes, you are right.
I also want to add that there's a stub BFI with links too.


Best regards,
-- Andrew

[Nathan]

I've done it using BFI, but now after BOCHS boot it up, I got this error:

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prefetch: getHostMemAddr vetoed direct read, pAddr=0x000a5c00

I've done it using this:

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C:\> bfi -f=test.img -o=BOOTABLE.EXE -b=BOOT16.BIN

[f2]

I've done it using this:

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C:\> bfi -f=test.img -o=BOOTABLE.EXE -b=BOOT16.BIN

You need to specify the path of the directory which must contain all files that should be included in the floppy image.
BTW, is BOOT16.BIN a FAT16 boot sector? If yes, that's wrong. FAT12 is better suited for floppies.

that my floppy has a FAT16 partition, not FAT12

Never seen a floppy with partitions. Well, it's possible, but I'm not sure if Windows recognizes that.

[Nathan]

What I got now was this:

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C:\>bfi -f=test.img -o=STARTUP.BIN -b=BOOT12.BIN path C:\
FindFirstFile() failed
Error code 0x3: The system can not find the path specified


C:\>

I've tried with sub-directories, other drives, but I got the same error.

[f2]

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C:\>bfi -f=test.img -o=STARTUP.BIN -b=BOOT12.BIN path C:\

Replace "path" by the name of the directory.
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C:\>bfi -f=test.img -o=STARTUP.BIN -b=BOOT12.BIN binaries

"binaries" is the name of the directory which contains all files to include in the image.