MTools for WIN32

[Martin Fuchs]

Hello,

today I tried to setup a QEMU boot environment for ReactOS.
I had a few problems to create the image and configuret the partition
on Windows.
However I could solve the problem using Linux, like this:

# create an empty 60 MB large disk image
dd if=/dev/zero of=/windows/c/reactos-emu/c.img count=121968

# initialize the MBR and partition using a DOS bot disk
qemu -fda dos5.img -hda c.img -boot a

# at the DOC command prompt:
> fdisk

# back in Linux
mformat c:

# boot ReactOS CDROM iso image in QEMU
qemu.exe -L . -hda c.img -cdrom reactos-0.3svn.iso -boot d

# Update the binaries from a fresh compiled ReactOS tree on Windows
binst.bat

Is there a better way, and is it possible without using Linux?

I also had to notice, my MTools on Windows are quite out of date.
(from 27.1.2001)
After a few boot cycles they have problems to read the image, and report:

Cannot initialize 'C:'

The Linux version works quite well on the same disk image.
Do you know of a newer WIN32 version of MTools - where can I download them?

I think this download link should also be put into the Wiki:
http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_ReactOS#Using_MTools

Thanks,

Martin

[Bernd Blaauw]

Martin Fuchs schreef:
> today I tried to setup a QEMU boot environment for ReactOS.
> I had a few problems to create the image and configuret the partition
> on Windows.
>
> I think this download link should also be put into the Wiki:
> http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_ReactOS#Using_MTools

I downloaded the QEMU 0.27 release for Windows, it's the only way to get 
a compiled 0.7x version of QEMU for win32.
(OSFREEZOO has older versions). Replace the ISO image by your SVN ISO.
Download BOCHS and use the BXIMAGE program to create a new (flat?) disk 
image,
replace c.img in the QEMU/ReactOS directory by this new image.

To my knowledge QEMU will not allow you to boot from cdrom unless a 
harddisk is present.
(try the LiveCD in QEMU for example, and remove the "c.img" part from 
boot.bat)

no idea about Mtools for updating, I'm just a simple user :)
> Thanks,
> Martin

Bernd