[gPXE] Booting FreeDOS - beginner question

[Quinn Plattel]

If you use qemu, qcow is the default image format which is not raw.
If you use VirtualBox, vdi is the default image format which  is also not
raw.
The easiest is to use dd "dd if=/dev/zero of=image.bin bs=1M count=0
seek=40" to create a raw image and then use qemu to populate the image
"qemu -hda image.bin -cdrom freedos.iso".
After install, copy the image.bin file to your iscsi target and edit
/etc/iet/ietd.conf to point to that image.

br,
Quinn

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Ruzsinszky Attila <
ruzsinszky.attila at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Check your image file - I don't think it is a raw image.  If you use
> linux,
> > you can see if it is a raw image by using the disktype command. "disktype
> > <imagefile>".
> Under FreeNAS there isn't disktype.
>
> > iSCSI cannot deal with any other image types except raw.
> What does it mean 'raw' exactly? No partition table? Or what?
> I created a full of zero file with dd.
> Fdisked it.
> Formatted it (msdos)
> Makebootfatted.
> Copied some FDOS files.
>
> So I really confused.
> Are those steps correct in theoretically?
>
> TIA,
> Ruzsi
>



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Best regards/Med venlig hilsen,
Quinn Plattel
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