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From: cur022%cluster@ukc.ac.uk (Bob Eager)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Getting boot image onto disk under MS-DOS
Message-ID: <21925.27c2a701@cluster@ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 20 Feb 91 16:42:41 GMT
References: <2286@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au>
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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In article <2286@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au>, wkt@rodos2.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey) writes:
> This is a recollection from some email I received a while ago.
>>debug
> -n image.bin		Name the file
> -l			Load it, it starts at cs:100
> -w cs:100 0 0 2c4	Write from address cs:100 to sector 0 on
> 			drive 0 (A:), write out 0x2c4 sectors (==360K)
> -q

Nearly right. I don't think the length of the write can be specified like
this, though; it has to be in the CX register.

    -rcx
    :2c4

just before the w command.
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