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<H1> Clonezilla-SysRescCD<br>Booting an old PC<br>08/02/2009 - v 3.1.0</H1> |
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<!--site-only--><table border="0" width="95%" style="margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;"><tr><td><font size="-1">Copyright: © 2007-2009, <a href="mailto:sng@hellug.gr?subject=About Clonezilla-SysRescCD v 3.1.0">Spiros Georgaras <sng@hellug.gr></a></font></td><td align="right"><font size="-1"></font></td></tr><tr><td><font size="-1">Last update: 23/12/2009</font></td><td align="right"><font size="-1"></font></td></tr><tr><td><font size="-1"> </font></td><td align="right"><font size="-1"></font></td></tr><tr><td><!-- <font size="-1">Select language: <img src="en.png" border="0" width="21" height="14" alt="English"> <a href=""><img src="el.png" border="0" width="21" height="14" alt="Greek"></a></font> --></td><td align="right"><font size="-1"><a href="http://clonezilla-sysresccd.hellug.gr/clonezilla-sysresccd.rss" title="RSS news feed"><img src="rss-orange-11.png" border="0" width="30" height="14" alt="RSS news feed"></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><font size="-1"> </font></td><td align="right"><font size="-1"></font></td></tr></table><table border="0" width="100%" class="nav"><tr> <td width="33%"><a href="own-scripts.html">Previous</a></td> <td width="34%" align="center"><a href="../README.html">Contents</a></td> <td width="33%" align="right"><a href="help.html">Next</a></td> </tr></table><hr style="margin: 0;"><!--end-site-only--> |
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<p>Have you ever tried to boot an old PC off a CD-ROM, and found out it wouldn't, because its BIOS does not support it, or it's faulty or for any other reason? Well, I have. So this page is an effort to solve this problem.</p> |
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<p>The only way to do it, is to boot of a floppy disk which will help me "load" whatever operation system I want from a CD. This means that I will have to write a boot loader to the floppy disk.</p> |
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<p>The software I will use is <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr/" target="_blank">Smart Boot Manager</a>, a small boot manager with a nice TUI (Text User Interface). Its floppy image, already accessible from the "Tools" menu, can be found in the <b>bootdisk</b> folder of the CD under the name <b>sbm.img</b>.</p> |
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<H2><a name="write"></a>Writing the image to a floppy disk <span class="hideprint">[<a href="#oldboot-top" title="go to top of the page">^</a>]</span></H2> |
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<p>All you have to do is get to a PC equipped with a floppy drive, get a floppy disk which is in excellent condition (no bad sectors/blocks), and copy the image file to it.</p> |
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<H3><a name="fromLinux"></a>1. From Linux <span class="hideprint">[<a href="#oldboot-top" title="go to top of the page">^</a>]</span></H3> |
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<p>You can either boot <b>Clonezilla Live</b> or <b>SystemRescueCD</b>, and when the system is fully up, execute the command:</p> |
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<p class="newcode">dd if=<font color="Green">/path/to/</font>sbm.img of=/dev/fd0</p> |
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<p>where <font color="Green" style="font-weight: bold;">/path/to</font> is<br> |
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<font color="Red" style="font-weight: bold;">/live/image/bootdisk</font> for <b>Clonezilla Live</b><br> |
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<font color="Red" style="font-weight: bold;">/mnt/livecd/bootdisk</font> for <b>SystemRescueCD</b> |
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<H3><a name="fromDOS"></a>2. From DOS <span class="hideprint">[<a href="#oldboot-top" title="go to top of the page">^</a>]</span></H3> |
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<p>You can get into any DOS (boot FreeDOS from the CD, for example), and use any of the following programs found in the <b>rawrite</b> folder of the CD:</p> |
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<li><b>rawrite.exe</b>: is just here for completeness, as it may be needed for someone</li> |
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<li><b>rawrite2.exe</b>: should be the fastest</li> |
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<li><b>rawrite3.com</b>: should work if <b>rawrite2</b> fails for some reason</li> |
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<li><b>fdimage.exe</b>: rawrite alternative</li> |
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<p>I found these programms at the <a href="http://www.fdos.org/ripcord/rawrite/" target="_blank">FreeDOS web site</a>, where the following info is included:</p> |
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Basic Usage (Rawrite):</b><br> |
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Depending on the exact version, the output and command line support may vary, i.e. not work<br> |
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Usage:<br> |
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MS-DOS prompt> RAWRITE<br> |
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and follow the prompts, -or-<br> |
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MS-DOS prompt> RAWRITE [-f <file>] [-d <drive>] [-n(owait)] [-h(elp)]<br> |
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where: -f <file> - name of disk image file<br> |
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-d <drive> - diskette drive to use, must be A or B<br> |
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-n - don't prompt for user to insert diskette<br> |
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-h - print usage information to stdout<br> |
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The diskette must be formatted or rawrite will not work.<br> |
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The contents of the disk do not matter and will be overwritten. <br> |
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When ran interactively (without command line options) you will be prompted for the disk image filename (you must remember this as there is no file chooser).<br> |
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You will also be prompted for the target/destination drive, either A or B for A: or B: respectively. <br><br> |
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<b>Basic Usage (FDImage):</b><br> |
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fdimage is an updated DOS program meant to replace rawrite. It does not require a pre-formatted floppy diskette. <br> |
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FDIMAGE - Write disk image to floppy disk<br> |
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Version 1.5 Copyright (c) 1996-7 Robert Nordier<br> |
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Usage: fdimage [-dqsv] [-f size] [-r count] file drive<br> |
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-d Debug mode<br> |
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-f size Specify the floppy disk format by capacity, eg:<br> |
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160K, 180K, 320K, 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M, 2.88M<br> |
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-q Quick mode: don't format the disk<br> |
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-r count Retry count for format/write operations<br> |
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-s Single-sector I/O<br> |
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-v Verbose</span> |
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<p>In order to write the image file to a pre-formatted diskette, execute the commands:</p> |
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<p class="newcode"><font color="Green">X:</font>\<br> |
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cd rawrite<br> |
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rawrite2 -f <font color="Green">X:</font>\bootdisk\sbm.img -d b:</p> |
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<p>In order to write the image file and format the diskette at the same time, execute the commands:</p> |
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<p class="newcode"><font color="Green">X:</font>\<br> |
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cd rawrite<br> |
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fdimage -f 1.44M <font color="Green">X:</font>\bootdisk\sbm.img b:</p> |
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<p>where <b><font color="Green">X:</font></b> is the drive name in DOS</p> |
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<H3><a name="fromWindows"></a>3. From Windows <span class="hideprint">[<a href="#oldboot-top" title="go to top of the page">^</a>]</span></H3> |
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<p>The final alternative is to use Windows program <b>rawwritewin.exe</b> (found in the <b>rawrite</b> folder of the CD), as shown in the following image:</p> |
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