[Floppertalk] Bootable CD

jleyda floppertalk@oldskool.org
Thu, 6 Jun 2002 16:36:58 -0600


yeesh!  I doubt anyone has ever tried installing flopper on a bootable CD.
I kinda doubt it would work actually.
When the vector table gets loaded by flopper, it'll probably kill whatever
BIOS services that CD-ROM is using, unless it uses only INT-13.  if flopper
sees a disk request coming in any drive other than drive A:, it'll pass it
onto the real BIOS service.  If your CD-ROM is set to drive C: or something,
it may just work.
 
I'd experiment on a CDRW 1st though...
 
As for loading disks with memory managers, I'm honestly not sure that would
work either.  
Flopper has to operate in flat real mode, and thus requires no memory
managers.
 
himem.sys may be ok, but emm386 switches the machine into V86 mode and
that'll certainly cause flopper to puke.
 
You're certainly taking flopper places it was never ever designed or dreamed
of going.  
-jeff!

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Sundell PMI [mailto:ESundell@pmi.delta.org]
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 4:28 PM
To: 'floppertalk@oldskool.org'
Subject: [Floppertalk] Bootable CD



Has anyone ever been successful in installing Flopper to a bootable CD?, I
would like to create images of all my utility disks on the CD and run
Flopper from it to chose my utilities. Some of the images use Memory
managers is that going to be a Problem?


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