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- mention mtools before winimage, since winimage is commercial
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This is the top level file for the Bochs Users Manual.
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</screen>
</para>
<section><title>Unix: How to make a disk image</title>
<section><title>How to make a disk image</title>
<para>
This was contributed by Greg Alexander in October 2001.
</para>
<screen>
0.) What you need:
<para>
What you need:
1.) An executable version of bochs. See "obtaining a bochs executable"
or "compiling the bochs source"
2.) The bximage program, included with bochs
3.) A FreeDOS boot disk, or a boot disk from another OS capable of
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
An executable version of bochs. See <link linkend="downloading">Downloading Bochs</link> and <link linkend="compiling">Compiling Bochs</link>.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
The bximage program, included with bochs
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
A FreeDOS boot disk, or a boot disk from another OS capable of
producing DOS partitions (i.e. a linux install disk.)
4.) (optional) mtools, a program for manipulating DOS disks/images.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
(optional) mtools, a program for manipulating DOS disks/images.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
<screen>
1.) Creating an image file.
Run `bximage` to create a disk image file. You will be greeted with the
following prompt:
========================================================================
bximage
Disk Image Creation Tool for Bochs
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</screen>
</section> <!-- end of Unix: How to make a disk image -->
<section><title>Win32: Use winimage to manipulate disk images</title>
<section><title>Use mtools to manipulate disk images</title>
<para>
Mtools is a set of programs that can read, write, and format DOS disk images.
There are links to the Mtools main page and a Win32 port of Mtools on the
<ulink url="http://bochs.sourceforge.net/links.html">Bochs Links page</ulink>,
under Resources.
</para>
<para>
The mtools web site has a detailed manual. If anyone wants to write
instructions specific to Bochs, we can add it right here.
</para>
</section>
<section><title>Win32 only: Use winimage to manipulate disk images</title>
<para>
Someone on the bochs-developers list mentioned that they use a program
called WinImage, from <ulink url="www.winimage.com">www.winimage.com</ulink>
to read and write disk images (floppy and hard disk).
to read and write disk images (floppy and hard disk). Winimage is a
commercial product with a 30-day trial.
</para>
<para>
If anyone wants to write a tutorial, send mail to &devlist; and volunteer.