Le 2012-02-07 06:39, Maurice Batey a écrit :

On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:39:24 -0500, Michel Catudal wrote:

You didn't understand what I said.

  I know! :-(

The xosl install that I have runs off a floppy diskette which has been
formatted to PC DOS. You should be able to find dos bootable image on the
net. xosl has a nice graphic install.

  Do you have a step-by-step description of how to create such floppy, please?

(1st problem is: what do you mean by 'formatted to PC DOS'?

Exactly that, formatted with PC Dos boot on it. I don't think that you can buy PC Dos anymore. You can get freedos boot disk.
Even a DRDOS, win 95 or win 98 boot disket would work.

They don't seem to have a boot disk with the new freedos 1.1, If you have a small partition you can install freedos on it.

http://www.freedos.org/
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/

   Write a disk image to the floppy?
   Presumably not simply --> FAT32, as the disk will be booted.

Slackware provides programs to do that, some that run under dos, windows and Linux

You don't have FAT32 on a floppy, it's too small, its FAT16.
http://www.bootdisk.com/helpdesk.htm

   What files need to be found and put on the floppy? Where from?)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xosl/files/xosl/xosl%20%201.1.5/

For boot the minimum number of files. On PC DOS there is some hidden files and command.com
With a minimum number of files you can still have room for a backup of the MBR. With a win 95 boot that should be possible also.
It gets too big with a win98 boot. Ideally you would have a partition with freedos and a boot disk in case the MBR gets whacked.
Your freedos partition needs to be less 2G or smaller.

On my computer I first partitioned the disk with fdisk with a SuSE boot CD. I then installed free dos

michel@catudal ~/Téléchargement/temp $ dir /mnt/freedos/FDOS/XOSL/
total 1276
drwxrwxrwx 2 michel michel   4096 12 fév 2011 .
drwxrwxrwx 29 michel michel   4096 12 fév 2011 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 michel michel   4096 12 fév 2011 BOOTITEM.XDF
-rwxrwxrwx 1 michel michel    512 16 fév 2000 CURR_MBR.XCF
-rwxrwxrwx 1 michel michel    512 26 nov 1999 DEFAULT.MBR
-rwxrwxrwx 1 michel michel   7936 24 aoû 1999 DEFAULT.XFF
-rwxrwxrwx 1 michel michel   8192 1 jui 2000 EXTRA.XFF
-rwxrwxrwx 1 michel michel 24553 23 déc 2000 INSTALL.EXE
-rwxrwxrwx 1 michel michel    440 23 déc 2000 IPL06.BIN
-rwxrwxrwx 1 michel michel    440 23 déc 2000 IPL06LBA.BIN
-rwxrwxrwx 1 michel michel    440 23 déc 2000 IPL0B.BIN
-rwxrwxrwx 1 michel michel    440 23 déc 2000 IPL0BLBA.BIN
-rwxrwxrwx 1 michel michel    512 23 déc 2000 IPLS.BIN
-rwxrwxrwx 1 michel michel    512 23 déc 2000 IPLSLBA.BIN
-rwxrwxrwx 1 michel michel   2333 23 déc 2000 NOTES.TXT
-rwxrwxrwx 1 michel michel    512 12 fév 2011 ORIG_MBR.XCF
-rwxrwxrwx 1 michel michel 403462 12 fév 2011 PARTIMG.BIN
-rwxrwxrwx 1 michel michel 60684 8 déc 2000 SBMINST.EXE
-rwxrwxrwx 1 michel michel    512 12 fév 2011 SBM_IPL0.XCF
-rwxrwxrwx 1 michel michel 31828 24 aoû 1999 SPLASHLG.XBF
-rwxrwxrwx 1 michel michel    512 12 fév 2011 XOSLDATA.XDF
-rwxrwxrwx 1 michel michel 401408 12 fév 2011 XOSLIMG.FS
-rwxrwxrwx 1 michel michel 19970 23 déc 2000 XOSLIMG0.XXF
-rwxrwxrwx 1 michel michel 32768 23 déc 2000 XOSLIMG1.XXF
-rwxrwxrwx 1 michel michel 32768 23 déc 2000 XOSLIMG2.XXF
-rwxrwxrwx 1 michel michel 32768 23 déc 2000 XOSLIMG3.XXF
-rwxrwxrwx 1 michel michel 32768 23 déc 2000 XOSLIMG4.XXF
-rwxrwxrwx 1 michel michel 17011 23 déc 2000 XOSLIMG5.XXF
-rwxrwxrwx 1 michel michel   7820 23 déc 2000 XOSLLOAD.XCF
-rwxrwxrwx 1 michel michel 31828 24 aoû 1999 XOSLLOGO.XBF
-rwxrwxrwx 1 michel michel 22500 24 aoû 1999 XOSLWALL.XBF
-rwxrwxrwx 1 michel michel 32768 27 fév 2000 XRPART00.XXF
-rwxrwxrwx 1 michel michel 32768 27 fév 2000 XRPART01.XXF

michel@catudal ~/Téléchargement/temp $ du /mnt/freedos/FDOS/XOSL/
1272    /mnt/freedos/FDOS/XOSL/

michel@catudal ~/Téléchargement/temp $ df
Sys. fich.     1K-blocks     Util. Disponible Uti% Monté sur
rootfs         481481584 182256920 294405916 39% /
udev               10240       432       9808   5% /dev
/dev/sda10     481481584 182256920 294405916 39% /
rc-svcdir           1024        84        940   9% /lib64/rc/init.d
cgroup_root        10240         0      10240   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
shm              2027500        88    2027412   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda7         118656     50709      61925 46% /boot
/dev/sdb10     376508104 33424476 324237416 10% /home/michel/vm_files
/dev/sdb9      523733076 387468304 110050372 78% /mnt/mageia
/dev/sdb7      523733076 353900864 143617812 72% /mnt/sl6
/dev/sda2        2084360    219800    1864560 11% /mnt/freedos

Michel

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