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MKDISKIMAGE

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
SEE ALSO
HOMEPAGE
AUTHOR

NAME

mkdiskimage - Create a blank MS-DOS formatted hard disk image

SYNOPSIS

mkdiskimage [-doFMz4] [-i id] file cyl head sect

DESCRIPTION

This is a convenient tool to generate a hard disk image, pre-formatted according to the MS-DOS specification, and having stated properties.

A disk image named file will be created, large enough to have cyl cylinders, head heads, and sect sectors. Using -M , the value of cyl will instead be interpreted as size in MBytes.

Additional settings include ZIP type disks, FAT32 formatting, and the inclusion of an emulation header.

OPTIONS

	-4		Use the fourth partition table entry. This is the standard for ZIP-disks.
	-F		Format the partition using a FAT32 file system.
	-M		The argument cyl is given in Megabytes. Recalculate this to get the count in cylinders.
	-d		Add a DOSEMU header.

-i id

Specify the MBR identity field as id .

	-o		Print to stdout the file system offset.
	-z		Use a ZIP-disk geometry. This needs heads =64 and sect =32.

HOMEPAGE

More information about the Syslinux project can be found on the homepage at < http://www.syslinux.org/ >.

AUTHOR

mkdiskimage was written by H. Peter Anvin < hpa@zytor.com >.

This manual page was written by Mats Erik Andersson < debian@gisladisker.se >.