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Setup & Installation / Re: Need help with QSINIT Loader
« on: September 21, 2014, 06:46:06 pm »
Hi Sigurd,
There are two sets of disk images that you have to be concerned with, those in the os2image directory and those in the diskimgs directory.
The ones in the os2image dir are the ones that you can add packed files to, which is what I am assuming you are doing. Those in the diskimgs dir are the images used to boot the CD/DVD. Although they are a standard diskimage file (you can make a floppy disk from them) non of the files used for booting in there are packed, zipped or compressed in any way because there is nothing at that stage of the boot that can uncompress them. Unfortunately updcd creates these image files before you pause the process.
The only way to change them is to open then in a v-floppy, unless you have a floppy drive available and several spare floppies, change what you need to and then convert that floppy back to an image - or use memboot which allows better manipulation of what is there (use e_pf.exe from memboot to open the .pf files in the bootimgs dir of your eCS CD to get some idea of what can be used there - for example, all of the *.BIO files in disk_0 are no longer used).
There are two sets of disk images that you have to be concerned with, those in the os2image directory and those in the diskimgs directory.
The ones in the os2image dir are the ones that you can add packed files to, which is what I am assuming you are doing. Those in the diskimgs dir are the images used to boot the CD/DVD. Although they are a standard diskimage file (you can make a floppy disk from them) non of the files used for booting in there are packed, zipped or compressed in any way because there is nothing at that stage of the boot that can uncompress them. Unfortunately updcd creates these image files before you pause the process.
The only way to change them is to open then in a v-floppy, unless you have a floppy drive available and several spare floppies, change what you need to and then convert that floppy back to an image - or use memboot which allows better manipulation of what is there (use e_pf.exe from memboot to open the .pf files in the bootimgs dir of your eCS CD to get some idea of what can be used there - for example, all of the *.BIO files in disk_0 are no longer used).