raphnet
💡 Feature Request: Full FAT12 Filesystem
First of all, I absolutely love this tool, thank you for your hard work! I have been using your tool for a project I'm working on. The only drawback, is that there is no support for additional files. Would it be possible to update the bootloaders to look for the COM/EXE yet allow additional files to be transferred to the virtual floppy?
MikeOS does this for example. Thanks!
Well since version 1.3 there is a FAT12 filesystem and you can actually store regular files on the floppy. But the bootloader does not search for the executable, the data is instead stored in reserved sectors. Updating the bootloader to search the filesystem for an executable would be nice, I may actually do it in the future. But not right now.
To create a bootable floppy with additional files, you can do this:
- Generate the initial floppy image with booterify
- Use mcopy (from the mtools suite) to add files to the floppy. For instance, to add a file named readme.txt, you'd do:
mcopy -i floppyimage.dsk readme.txt ::
You can also list the contents with mdir -i floppyimage.dsk
