http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/blair/
http://www.freedos.org/freedos/files/
http://resmedicinae.sourceforge.net/manuals/apw_linux/ch03.html#d0e898
http://www.linux-fuer-alle.de/doc_show.php?docid=207&catid=21
http://gnubox.dyndns.org:8080/~sunil/dosemu.php
http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php
http://resmedicinae.sourceforge.net/manuals/apw_linux/
http://resmedicinae.sourceforge.net/manuals/apw_linux/ch03.html#d0e1314
http://www.icequake.net/cgi2/dosemuconf.pl?confversion=1.1.5
http://www.linux-fuer-alle.de/doc_show.php?docid=207&catid=21
http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/freedos/freedos.html
http://www.sysresccd.org/systools.en.php
- System boot disks The CDRom comes with many virtual floppy disks. These floppy images can be used as a real boot floppy disk. They provide many important services. Here is a list of the provided disks:
FreeDos allows running DOS programs without MS-DOS
MemTest+ test the physical memory, and tells if it is damaged or not
- Gag (Graphical Boot Manager) an easy to use Boot manager (such as LILO)
- Ranish Partition Manager a free partition editor
- Aida a powerful hardware diagnostic tool (as sandra)
http://rescuecd.pld-linux.org/download/current/amd64/
http://rescuecd.pld-linux.org/
PLD RescueCD can be booted via:
- Bootable CD-ROM (ATAPI,SCSI,USB - BIOS permitting) Simple boot floppy IDE/SCSI/USB hard disk USB Pendrive Remote Network Boot via PXE
http://ms-sys.sourceforge.net/
sage:
- ms-sys [options] [device]
Options:
- -1, --fat12 Write a FAT12 floppy boot record to device -2, --fat32nt Write a FAT32 partition NT boot record to device -3, --fat32 Write a FAT32 partition DOS boot record to device -6, --fat16 Write a FAT16 partition DOS boot record to device -l, --wipelabel Reset partition disk label in boot record -p, --partition Write partition info (hidden sectors, heads and drive id)
- to boot record
Warning: Writing the wrong kind of boot record to a device might destroy partition information or file system!
http://www.europe.redhat.com/documentation/rhl8.0/rhl-rg-de-8.0/s1-boot-init-shutdown-process.php3
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/kb/article.php?id=043 http://web.mit.edu/rhel-doc/4/RH-DOCS/rhel-rg-de-4/s1-boot-init-shutdown-process.html
http://foremost.sourceforge.net/
http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/System/Boot/index.shtml
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=02988#0
http://www.xs4all.nl/~gklein/bc.html#Q1-1-2
http://bick.slashusr.org/README
BICK - Bootable ISO Construction Kit
BICK is Copyright © 2002 by Philip Howard, licensed under GPL
BICK builds a bootable ISO image from a system file tree for Linux. Enough sample files are included to get started making a rescue CD.
Version 0.8.0 is a beta test version which now includes the ability to make an ISO image which can boot on the Sun Sparc platform as well as the Intel PC platform (using El Torito). This does mean you can make one CD which can boot on either. The sample files include both platforms already compiled (sources for the Slackware and Splack parts are available at their respective web/ftp sites) and ready to make a dual architecture bootable CD even if you only have an Intel PC.
This directory also has available a pre-built dual platform ISO image.
Feedback, problem reports, etc, can be sent to bick@ipal.org.
http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/System/Boot/index.shtml
http://rescuecd.pld-linux.org/download/current/amd64/
http://rescuecd.pld-linux.org/
http://cdemu.sourceforge.net/#download Valid CSS!
- CDemu for Linux
About
CDemu is a kernel module for Linux. It is designed to simulate a CD drive + CD with just simple cue/bin files, which are pretty common in the Windows world. It includes an user space program to control the kernel module. You can use it to watch an SVCD or mount the data track of an bin/cue. However, for watching an SVCD, we would recommend MPlayer which can play bin/cue images directly with the patch a friend and I made for it (more under History). The CDemu project is licensed under the GPL (v2 or later) ! Status
- Using CDemu on multi user systems should be safe now. Any user can mount an image in an empty CDemu slot while only the user (and root) can unmount a slot that is already in use. - Many users have reported SMP issues (varying from lock ups to very poor performance). We've had an user send us a threading patch to avoid locking issues, but it is 2.4-centric. So, before it can be added to CVS, it needs to be generalized to support 2.4 and 2.6. Unfortunately, none of the CDemu developers have access to SMP systems so the best testing we can do involves 'it looks good' :). CDemu-0.6 final should resolve these issues. - Looking ahead: CDemu was first created to support bin/cue images. Ideally, we'd like to be able to support Nero (.nrg), Disc Juggler (.cdi), Clone CD (.ccd), etc... Anyone with spare time and spare patches would be appreciated :). History
It all started like this: I got some movies from friends on a firewire disk which where bin/cue files. They told me I would need to burn them or use Daemon Tools under Windows in order to watch them. That was to much for me, booting Windows just to watch a movie? So a friend (Justus Schwartz) and I decided that we should make a patch for our favored video player (MPlayer). After one night we had a proof of concept; 2 weeks later we had a good patch and we submitted it. It was accepted by the MPlayer team and starting with 0.9rc3, our patch is included. The syntax is as follows: $ mplayer cue://<cue file>track [options]
After that was done, I thought, hey it's not that hard, so I resolved to make something like Daemon Tools, but for Linux. And so I started to write my first kernel module and after 1 week it worked; some bug fixes later we had my first public version.
I changed the name to CDemu because the company which owns the rights to the name "Virtual CD" asked me to do so. Install
The install is quite simple:
- extract the archive:
$ tar -jxvf cdemu-<VER>.tar.bz2
- you need the source of your current running kernel.
- /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build/include needs to point at it.
- build the module:
- $ make
- install the module and user space utilities:
- $ sudo make install
- now simply load the kernel module:
- $ sudo modprobe cdemu (no message should be displayed after running modprobe)
- to load a bin/cue image:
- $ cdemu 0 image.cue $ mount /dev/cdemu/0 /mnt/cdrom (some things may be different on your system, YMMV)
- for more information, please review the help output:
- $ cdemu -h
FreeDos (last modified 2008-11-04 07:00:12)
