This weekend, I installed RTP from CD onto on of my machines that shares
time with NT. RTP and NT each get their own disk, so I’m not too worried
about having to shared disks or file systems. To get around the
dual-boot problem (the NT boot loader doesn’t seem to like booting RTP
, I want to make an RTP boot floppy (e.g. a floppy I can stick into
the disk driver to cause the machine to boot RTP instead of NT.
I expected the CD-installer to give me an option to create a boot
floppy, but it didn’t.
I figured it should be easy to create a boot floppy from RTP, but I
can’t find a reference on qdn.qnx.com for the magic incantations.
Any suggestions or pointers appreciated.
Well I don’t see “fdformat” on my RtP installation, but assuming you’ve got a
formatted diskette from somewhere (I think even DOS formatting will work for
you), you want to do:
dinit -f /.boot /dev/fd0
That’ll put a filesystem on the floppy, and copy the current boot image from
your RtP system (/.boot) to the floppy (also as /.boot). When the machine
boots from the floppy, it will load the boot image from there (the system cares
not where it got the boot image from, ya know) and then fire up whatever
configuration you’ve got established. Piece of cake.
-Warren
“Eric Berdahl” <berdahl@intelligentparadigm.com> wrote in message
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| This weekend, I installed RTP from CD onto on of my machines that shares
| time with NT. RTP and NT each get their own disk, so I’m not too worried
| about having to shared disks or file systems. To get around the
| dual-boot problem (the NT boot loader doesn’t seem to like booting RTP
| , I want to make an RTP boot floppy (e.g. a floppy I can stick into
| the disk driver to cause the machine to boot RTP instead of NT.
|
| I expected the CD-installer to give me an option to create a boot
| floppy, but it didn’t.
|
| I figured it should be easy to create a boot floppy from RTP, but I
| can’t find a reference on qdn.qnx.com for the magic incantations.
|
| Any suggestions or pointers appreciated.
Currently boot floppy creation is available under the Windows install, both
during the install and after.
Eric Berdahl <berdahl@intelligentparadigm.com> wrote:
: I expected the CD-installer to give me an option to create a boot
: floppy, but it didn’t.
: Any suggestions or pointers appreciated.