mkfs.vfat and dosbox

allstarzero · 02-20-2008, 10:19 AM

Has anyone had any luck creating images with mkfs.vfat and then mounting them in DOSBox?

So far I tried:

Code:

mkfs.vfat -C disk-image 4100

which mounts fine using the loop device, i.e.:

Code:

mount disk-image dos/ -t vfat -o loop

and I can read and write to it, mount/umount it, etc.

But when I try to mount in dosbox using:

Code:

imgmount c ~/disk-image -size 512,63,16,20

it tells me it has mounted, but then when I try to dir, it tells me:

Code:

File *.* not found.

and in the background it says:

Code:

No good partiton found in image.
Loaded image has no valid magicnumbers at the end!

I'm really unsure about the parameters I'm passing to the -size option. I've tried "512,63,16,20" and "512,63,32,255" and "512,63,16,255" and "512,63,255,255," none of which work. Any suggestions at all will be appreciated.

allstarzero · 02-20-2008, 11:55 AM

I had a lot more luck using bximage to create the DOS image. I essentially followed the tutorial here.