[gPXE] Booting FreeDOS - beginner question

Ruzsinszky Attila ruzsinszky.attila at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 08:42:24 EST 2012


> 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.
OK, Now I understand.

> 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
I did it.

> -hda image.bin -cdrom freedos.iso".
It is a good idea making the image under qemu. If it is working ...

> After install, copy the image.bin file to your iscsi target and edit
> /etc/iet/ietd.conf to point to that image.
I'll do it.

TIA,
Ruzsi


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