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Rolling my own DOC (modified 0 times) Phreddy Profile | Email I have just done my first webplayer last night... All seems fine and this one is destined to be a net appliance for my mother so that needs a HD to record email and be a 'real' though light PC... The second one is for a specific app I am doing (thin client screen for a HTPC with RDC and a jukebox front end)... For this I need it to have some settings made and flash installed but could live with a DOC image (especially as my spare HD went in last nights build :) !!) so... If I want to roll my own 98Micro build and make my own DOC image how would I go about that ?? Also any cheap sources of a bigger DOC (I mean cheaper than a HD ?? ) to give me a bit more elbow room ?? Thanks in advance PP 10-11-2002 08:54:50

RE:Rolling my own DOC (modified 0 times) jpe_dty Profile It is possible someone has a better way to construct a DOC image. The one I created was for a 144MB DOC. The process was as follows: 1) install harddrive bootable to dos 2) copy 98light distrib to it (actually for the 144MB DOC I used the full version of win98se) 3) perform install of windows 98 4) compress the drive 5) create correct sized compressed drive to fit on the DOC 6) boot off _another_ harddrive that has windows on it 7) copy from the compressed volume from #4 to the compressed volume from #5 8) format /s the DOC 9) copy new compressed volume over old compressed volume from dos (the actual compressed images, not the files within them) 10) remove unneeded compressed volume from #4 11) copy contents of working drive on to the DOC 12) cross your fingers, remove the drives, and reboot 10-11-2002 11:39:43

RE:Rolling my own DOC (modified 0 times) Phreddy Profile | Email Quite a bit of that I need more details on... 98SE is installing as I type... I am a registered LitePC user already (though dont need it for the micro IIRC) but this will be the job of tomorrow... Get the partition to be stripped of all crap and only what I need... but... Step 4... Compress with what tools ?? Step 5... DO i need to pad the drive if not the right size (and what exact size is the standard DOC... 48 MB??) Step 8... How do i do that to the DOC ?? It does not show up as a drive to maniputlate in DOS... Thanks for the pointers and sorry for what may be dense questions... A distro that had flash player / a flash UI and possibly replaced the shell command with a fixed RDC connection would be what I am shooting for... Also links for cheap bigger DOC's ?? Though with laptop drives at sub 25 this seems like a excersize for fun rather than saving $$$ 10-11-2002 12:26:22

RE:Rolling my own DOC (modified 0 times) jpe_dty Profile >Step 4... Compress with what tools ?? I used the standard windows compressed drive tools (drivespace) >Step 5... DO i need to pad the drive if not the right size (and what exact size is the standard DOC... 48 MB??) The drive need only be small enough to fit along with the contents of C:\ from the working drive >Step 8... How do i do that to the DOC ?? It does not show up as a drive to maniputlate in DOS... I did gloss over that a bit :) I imagine you can find a freeware/shareware fdisk utility that lets you set active partitions on secondary drives. However, I used the fdisk from FreeBSD (I actually put a harddrive with freebsd on it in the webplayer long enough to do this.) You need to delete the linux partition, and create a 16bit fat partition, and then mark it as active. After that you can format it. 10-11-2002 12:39:48

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