Help with fat32 creating/booting/resizing

[Michael Blandford]

Hello,

Here is what I am trying to do:

Boot from a small linux image via pxe.  Image is only around 6 megs. 
Image builds a 32meg ramdisk to work with for extra working space.

What I want to do is:

create a fat 32 filesystem on a disk.  I would probably want this to be 
the whole disk.

make it bootable - ie equivalent of sys c: via parted or linux that 
would work for different disk types? ie hda, sda, etc.

extract a bunch of files onto the new partition.
I was hoping I could do something like:

wget http://server/filesystem.tar.gz | gunzip | parted --script 
<options> to lay it down on the disk.

The end goal is this disk must be bootable into the new fat32 partition.

I am assuming I need to add something to the boot block as well.

So far I have no luck making this work.  If I create the filesystem with 
 fdisk + mkdosfs -F32 then when I reboot it, a windows95 boot disk wont 
recognize the filesystem.

Any help or ideas on how to accomplish something like this would be 
greatly appreciated.

Michael

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