[ltp] Replacing the bios bootsplash?

Ronald Hitz linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 5 Nov 2004 22:51:52 +0100


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> With dosemu, I could run this executable. But this program unfortunately
> needs a floppy drive to write to. So we dig into the linux toolbox and
> find: The loopback device. A dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/tmp/floppy.bin bs=3D=
1024
> count=3D1440 creates the floppy file, a losetup /dev/loop0 /tmp/floppy.bin
> makes it look like a block device, and this block device is what we put
> in the dosemu configuration as the floppy disk device. Now we can run
> the extractor and it will happily make /tmp/floppy.bin a floppy image.


I didn't understand the step:
=2E..and this block device is what we put  in the dosemu config. as the
floppy device.

What did You do ?
Which command?

cheers

Ronald Hitz

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