Boot Wester Digital's diagnostic tool "Data Lifeguard Diagnostic" using PXE
January 2012.
Create the image:
You will need:
- Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for DOS (CD)
- FreeDOS
zwm-server:~/western# wget "ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/fdboot.img"
zwm-server:~/western# wget "http://support.wdc.com/download/dlg/Diag504fCD.iso"
Mount the FreeDOS image and the CD:
zwm-server:~/western# mkdir fdboot ourimage DiagCD
zwm-server:~/western# mount -o loop fdboot.img fdboot
zwm-server:~/western# mount -o loop Diag504fCD.iso DiagCD/
Create and mount a 2MB fat image:
zwm-server:~/western# dd if=/dev/zero of=ourimage.img bs=1M count=2
zwm-server:~/western# apt-get install dosfstools
zwm-server:~/western# mkfs.msdos ourimage.img
zwm-server:~/western# mount -o loop ourimage.img ourimage
Copy the FreeDOS files and the CD contents to the newly created image disk:
zwm-server:~/western# cp -r fdboot/* ourimage/
zwm-server:~/western# mkdir ourimage/western
zwm-server:~/western# cp -r DiagCD/* ourimage/western/
Umount eveything:
zwm-server:~/western# umount ourimage/
zwm-server:~/western# umount DiagCD/
zwm-server:~/western# umount fdboot/
Copy the boot sector from the original FreeDOS image to ours:
zwm-server:~/western# dd if=fdboot.img of=ourimage.img bs=1 count=446 seek=62 skip=62 conv=notrunc
Boot the image:
What you need:
- pxelinux.0
- memdisk
- pxelinux's config file (pxelinux.cfg/default):
DEFAULT wd_iso
LABEL wd_iso
KERNEL memdisk
INITRD ourimage.img
Boot your computer, start FreeDOS and run the Wester Digital utility from the western folder.
Sources:
- (Free)DOS over PXE http://www.falsyana.com/2011/linux/freedos-over-pxe/
- FreeDOS on bigger disk image http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.freedos.general/10993