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Network BootDisk help
the past few days I'v been making a boot disk system that starts up the network services and is eventualy going to use Ghost to multicast to alot of PC's without user interaction.
I already have the network part up and running on the floppy, problem is, I'v run out of space >.< so....I know there is a way of doubeling the space on a floppy in return for a slower read and write speed, I need some help on how to do this. Hopefully I'll be able to fit ghost and the network loader on one floppy.
Thanks in advance.
- Noia
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Take alook at the Win98 recovery disk. What it basicly does is create a RAM disk and unzips a file from the floppydisk to this RAM disk. This way you might be able to squeeze a few more files on it.
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>.< already does this, what I'm thinking is Disk compression.
It sucks but I need the space.
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http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO.../floppies.html
/usr/sbin/fdformat /dev/fd0.????
same with linux i would expect? the example i saw was forcing 1720 instead of 1440 risky though.
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they only have windows at work >.<
hmmm...what would be good is getting it to be a 2.88 disk =\
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Originally posted here by Noia
they only have windows at work >.<
hmmm...what would be good is getting it to be a 2.88 disk =\
You'll need special disks and diskdrives for this. Not all PCs have a 2.88 floppydrive.
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Bleh, I know...I just need extra space, and I think maybe disk-compression may give it, but I'm not sure.
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Isn't something like Stacker(tm) build into DOS 6.22? It's been awhile but I can remember MS being sued by the guys that made Stacker(tm).
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Might not the answer you're looking for why are you not using a second floopy? I realy easy to make a Echo that ask for a the 2e floopy and a wait command for the user to insert the second floopy.
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try zip disk...or maybe a CD....would that work?
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Well, if you're going through the trouble of making a RAM disk and copying the files from the floppy onto the RAM disk, you could just as easily have a big { zip | tgz | tar.bz } archive on the disk, then extract it onto the RAM disk.
Erp, SirDice already said waht I just said, silly me. You could probably squeeze a few more bytes out of the disk by using a .tar.bz and a custom compilation of bzip that only unzips. Really, though, things generally don't compress twice. Disk compression *might* get you a few bytes by compressing the extraction program, but that's about it. Disk compression will probably not make a .zip file any smaller.
If you have net access, you could suck down some data from a server somewhere else...
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DOS 6.2 had features called dblspace and drivespace that could be used to make compressed floppies and disks - since you're trying to field ghosted systems it should'nt matter that the PC first uses something like a dos 6.2 boot disk... I'm not sure what the max size floopy might be though or if it exists in the DOS flavor that comes on win boxes now.. maybe you might want to explore this ?
.. cheyana
