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- From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Two suggestions .. comments welcome, please!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.200350.25081@muddcs.claremont.edu>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 20:03:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep9.135155.21141@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep9.050138.3606@utdallas.edu>, yuanyin@utdallas.edu (Yuan-Yin Wu) writes:
- >
- >| How about a program to 'edit' (alter) the boot image to suit you?
- >| I'm uploading such a program to SunSite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming,
- >| called chbootdev.tar.Z. You exec it in linux and will get what you want.
- >| Note that it does NOT edit the floppy, but the bootimage itself.
- >| There's a README in the file for a bit more detail.
- >
- > Or you could use the BPE (binary patch editor) program which works
- >nicely, thanks. The source was uploaded to tsx-11 and banjo (yes that
- >long ago) and the DOS binary is on most of the DOS arcives (I posted it
- >several years ago to cbip).
-
- And, as a reminder, there already exists a Linux solution on most (if
- not all) Linux installations. The program is called setroot on the
- latest root images by me, and was formerly called rootdev. It's
- called 'rdev' on the MCC release.
-
- Under DOS, as I said before, there are plenty of free binary editors
- out there.
-
- setroot will edit any image, whether it is stored on disk or sitting
- there as a file. You could even mount your DOS partition and run
- setroot on an image there....
- --
- + Jim Winstead Jr. (CSci '95)
- | Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
- | jwinstea@jarthur.Claremont.EDU
- + or jwinstea@fenris.Claremont.EDU
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