From:	Andreas Monitzer <hal AT no DOT spam DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: Bootable Program
Date:	Sun, 26 Apr 1998 21:21:17 +0200
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For DJGPP, you can use KERNEL2.ZIP which I already mentioned some time ago.
The URL is http://www.abwillms.demon.co.uk/prog/kernel2.zip

And if somebody gets it to work, please mail me! I didn't.

btw don't forget that you must write your own file system.

andy

Morgan wrote:

> I think what he means is that he wants a io.sys or LILO - type thing. Self
> bootable. That would be interesting to know if anyone does actually know how to
> do it.
>
> Collin Rose wrote:
>
> > Can anyone tell me how to make a program be bootable? For instance a program
> > called boot.exe is put on floppy. How can I make it so that when the disk is
> > in drive A at boot time the program boot.exe will be executed. Please send
> > replies to collinrose AT voyager DOT net
> >
> > Collin Rose


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