Amithlon Install to FreeDOS partition without Floppy Drive?

[XDelusion]

I was trying to follow this guide:

http://www.sci.fi/~vjouppi/amithlon/

And on it it says that you need to boot off the boot disk (ide.zip) in order to go though the motions.

The problem is that I do not have a floppy drive, and need to burn that bootable floppy image as a CD apparently, but Nero does not support the BIN disk image format, only IMG. So...

...my question, is there a way to get Amithlon on there without a floppy drive?

[XDelusion]

I am in an Amiga forum right?

[XDelusion]

No, not BIN as in CD image, it is BIN as in floppy image, its the other standard format aside of the IMG format.

Perhaps there is a way to mount a viurtual floppy drive in winblows XP or DOS?

[XDelusion]

Awsome, nice to meet you, thankx for this guide, can't wait to get it working.


Ok, here's the deal, I am on XP, but have a 16Gb partition free.

I would like to use the latest FreeDOS, so I installed FreeDOS to a 1Gb partition which is known as C: (winblows XP sees it as D:).

I then burnt the BIN file in Nero to CD, and the CD booted perfectly!

I then chose manual, chose to add another Primary partition, and changed that partition into a 118 Amithlong partition, at which point it became C: and C: became D:, so I swapped them back so that my FreeDOS partition would be C: again.

I then exited, and rebooted, I then tried to acess the C: drive to copy the files from the Amithlon CD, which were in the ISOLinux folder and not Syslinux.
 Anyhow, C: was suddenly no longer a valid drive.
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I then decided to can the 1Gb for FreeDOS and just install the FreeDOS from your CD instead, and follow your manual instructions.

So I do pretty much everything above, but this time, I can not copy the FreeDOS kernal to the C: drive as it can not be found. So now C: is not bootable.
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I then dug out another computer, tried the Auto install, it worked great, copied my files to C: from Amithlon's ISOLINUX directory, rebooted, and it got to some FrameBugger Not Found errors and never booted Amithlon.

[XDelusion]

Ya, it was fat 32, stange thing though...

...when I popped your Amothlon prep CD into my other puter, and did the auto set up, it formatted the boot sector to Fat 12.

I read Bernie's instructions for booting up Amithlon in DOS, and that brought me to a black screen.


 So what is the extra Amithlon partition for? I take it you are supposed to boot off the Amithlon disk image, then you use the extra partitions as normal hard drives?