Re: [Info-mtools] mtools command equivalent for the DOS program SYS.COM?

[Alain Knaff]

On 2011-04-02 16:13, Jörg Jenderek wrote:
> There seems not to exist a mtools command equivalent for the DOS program
> SYS.COM. 
> Of course this work can be done by the dd program, but it is non 
> comfortable and susceptible to faults. 
> 
> So it would be nice if the maintainers of the mtools could implement such a
> command like "msys [SOURCE] DRIVE:".
> 
> This seems not so time consuming because the code to transfer a bootloader 
> code (maybe given by -b switch) to the boot sector of a drive could be be 
> taken from the "mformat" source.
> It would be nice if such an mtools program and the mformat command have an 
> an option to switch between different DOS bootloader styles for "PC-DOS",
> "MS-DOS", "MS Win9x DOS", "mkdosfs" like the newer FreeDOS SYS version 
> offers.
> To emulate the DOS SYS program it also should copy a DOS Kernel (like 
> IO.SYS,IBMBIO.COM, KERNEL.SYS depending on DOS types) and a command line 
> interpreter (like COMMAND.COM, 4DOS.COM). This code can be based on the 
> source from the mcopy and mattrib commands.


For this, you might be interested in the "syslinux" tool:

http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/The_Syslinux_Project

Regards,

Alain