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Posted by Joost Diepenmaat on April 23, 2008, 6:09 pm
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> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:28:05 -0700, andy wrote:
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>> I want to get some idea about making a USB drive DOS bootable..in
>> windows....
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>> I want to make a USB drive DOS bootable ..and it should be a windows
>> utility which I want to develop in perl.
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>> Can anybody give me some idea about this ?
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> Not much perl related here. You need to learn about accessing raw drives,
> parsing partition tables, installing bootrecords, etc, etc...
Pretty much agreed here. FYI, if you don't *have* to use windows, linux
is probably a much better choice; I wrote a few USB-bootable tools
starting from sysresccd: http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
> Once you know about these, writing the program in perl will be rather
> trivial.
Also agreed.
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