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Saturday, February 21, 2004
 
See you tomorrow...

This will be one of those oh-so-rare short entries, partially to remind myself of something so I don't forget it by tomorrow. And it's almost 4am and I want to sleep now. Thing is I thought I would pretty much done with my Boot-98-from-CD project. Until I got to the boot-from-CD part that is. For the life of me I just couldn't figure out how to make a customized version of a DOS bootable CD. Because you see I could do it with my CD writing software's built-in files created for making bootable CDs. But I needed to use my own set of system files. So I've been spending the last 4+ hours on my one CDRW trying to get this to work. I made an image, ending .ima, of the bootable floppy I was going to use for the bootable CD and extracted the first file, bootcat.bin. But I still (apparently) need bootimage.bin. Judging by the file size (often somewhere around 360KB) it obviously housed the various DOS system files. But how create my own bootimg.bin. I just learned adding a file called bootimg.bin auto-magically creates the bootcat.bin. So finally, after 4+ hours, I just took my image file ending in .ima and changed the name to bootimg.bin and used that with the CD writer software. I burned the CD and tried it not expecting anything. And to my utter and total shock it worked!! A fully customized DOS bootable CD!! UNHEALTHY TANACITY!! Maybe this stupid project is actually do-able?! Have to wait til tomorrow to find out!

Well that's it for now. Last entry’s title is on a sign shown briefly in an episode of Futurama. You know, the one with Al Gore. Ya. Pfff. The city was Kyoto. Like you didn't know that :-).
 
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