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    How to make from bootable CD any bootable partition?
    « on: April 30, 2018, 06:18:25 PM »
    Hi!

    I own bootable CD with operating system OS/64.
    It boots, startup and then access first FAT32 partition.
    I want to create partition where I copy files from CD and then make it bootable.

    But how? Exist any tool?

    I used earlier ISO to VDI by VBox, then Qemu Copy to convert to VMDK and after VMDK2Phys - it created partition,but after booting it hangs and cannot work 'cause partition format is ISO... so this is no way - of course trying VMDK on VMware was success - it boots and works - but VM is not real machine.

    Can anybody explain it me?

    Thank you for all.

    Miro

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    Re: How to make from bootable CD any bootable partition?
    « Reply #1 on: April 30, 2018, 06:23:34 PM »
    I dont understand at all what you are tryimg to do...if you have the bootable CD you use it to install to the HDD...
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      Re: How to make from bootable CD any bootable partition?
      « Reply #2 on: April 30, 2018, 08:17:49 PM »
      CD has no installer - it works like live CD.

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      Re: How to make from bootable CD any bootable partition?
      « Reply #3 on: April 30, 2018, 08:40:49 PM »
      I know less now then when i asked...

      What CD ? ?

      What are you trying to do ? ?

      Is this related to your earlier post and the same PC ? ?
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        Re: How to make from bootable CD any bootable partition?
        « Reply #4 on: April 30, 2018, 09:11:34 PM »
        Yes, I asked for Vista installing to FAT32 filesystem.

        It's same botebook.

        About CD:
        It is small tiny live OS - running from CD.
        I need only copy files to FAT32 patition and make partition bootable.
        I don't know if it can boot when are there only copied files, here's root directory:

        ut 05 12 2017  07:23    <DIR>          BOOT
        ut 05 12 2017  07:23             2˙048 BOOT.CAT
                       1 File(s)          2˙048 bytes
                       1 Dir(s)               0 bytes free

        and BOOT directory:

        ut 05 12 2017  07:23    <DIR>          .
        ut 05 12 2017  07:23    <DIR>          ..
        ut 05 12 2017  07:23    <DIR>          GRUB
        ut 05 12 2017  07:23           526 503 OS64KERN.BI
                       1 File(s)        526 503 bytes
                       3 Dir(s)               0 bytes free

        Miro