anyone make a dedicated "floppy" partition?

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bleed3r

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I was thinking I might make one, so I could format it to keep memtest on it, or change it to fat32 to boot in dos etc, with whatever I need.

What is the minimum partition size I could use?
And would it work to use the format program for memtest but specify the partition as the floppy?
 
I made an 8mb partition, but rawrite doesn't let me use anything other than a: or b:
is there any way other way to write the bin? or to do something with the iso?

memtest were talkin about here
 
errr...I dont think I understand the question

for all effective purposes a floppy is already a "partition"
just happens to be the whole FDD and only 1.44MB but as far as the OS is concerned its just another drive\partition
if you have a floppy with memtest loaded on it...

also consider employing the Ultimate Boot CD
 
ok the question is


how do I write the memtest bin file to a partition with a name other than a: or b:

my goal is to boot off of a partition with memtest on it

the way you normaly write the bin to a floppy employs rawrite.exe, but it only writes to drives named a: or b:
 
OK I see so the floppy isnt involved at all
you want to mount a bootable HDD partition that contains memtest

well for starters you probably need a boot manager http://www.ranish.com/part/xosl.htm
then Id review how the Ultimate Boot CD accomplished the same thing on a CD
and http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/, http://www.nu2.nu/utilities/, ect same site

afraid those are just leads not answers

Id imagine youd have a DOS operating system (or maybe a BSD) and it would run memtest?
 
yeah I already started downloadign that ultimate boot cd to see how it works


do I need that boot manager though? does it just change the boot.ini of the primary?

cant I just manualy add the memtest drive in the boot.ini?
I'm not sure what I'd write though...

this is what mine is now:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect /KERNEL=LOGOOS.EXE
 
by the time you get to the boot,ini

your in Windows :p

not a good thing if your running a BSD or DOS
thats the real issue, booting a different OS
I think it is possible to dual boot DOS and XP\W2K
let me look

Inside the boot process part 1 & 2

Dual boot NT & DOS
Understanding Multibooting

there is also Grub and Lilo for dual booting nix and Windows
a boot manager takes that another step beyond and XOSL is a nice free one
see the FAQ > Advanced HDD Issues Linkfarm > Boot Managers
 
I was looking and you can dual boot windows and linux from boot.ini

if I had a selection for a partition containing lilo i could then load memtest from there

err, well if I understand how to do it it should be doable I think

but this is just the booting


have to get memtest on the partition somehow

ah, i see your editage
 
Also, there is a program called Winimage that will extract files from floppy images. I don't remember if that was how I made a memtest CD, or if there was already an ISO of it, but either way you don't have to use rawrite to get at the files.
 
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