AMD 4.4.5 user manual Disk Images, Creating a Blank Hard-Drive Image

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User Manual	November 21st, 2008

4 Disk Images

The simulator uses hard-drive images to provide simulated hard disks to the simulated computer. There are several ways to obtain hard drive-images.

∙Install your OS onto a hard drive in a real system, then move it to the secondary drive in a system and use DiskTool to copy the contents of the drive to an “.hdd” image file.

∙Make a blank hard-drive image and a DVD-/CD-ROM “ISO” image, and install a fresh operating system onto the hard-drive image. To make the hard drive and DVD-/CD-ROM images, refer to Section 4.1, "Creating A Blank Hard-Drive Image" and Section 13, “DiskTool”, on page 161.

∙To use a physical DVD-/CD-ROM:

∙Click on the button or select “View→Show Devices” to open the Device Window (Figure 3-2,on page 9).

∙Open the Southbridge's properties window by double-clicking on it, and choose the “HDD Secondary Channel” tab.

∙On a Windows host type “\\.\D:” where “D:” is the drive letter for the DVD- /CD-ROM, and on a Linux host type “/dev/cdrom” in the “Master Drive - Image Filename” field.

∙Check the DVD-ROMcheck box below the Filename field.

The simulator can access media via the following mechanisms:

∙IDE Hard Disk:

∙DiskTool IDE hard-disk image, is a flat file consisting of a 512-byte header (the IDE probe sector) and a raw image of data from the hard disk (if the raw data is cut off before the end of the disk, the disk-image from there on will just read as zero).

∙IDE DVD-ROM: (The simulator does not simulate DVD-ROM "insert" events)

∙DVD-ROM disk image is a flat file of the raw image of a data DVD-/CD- ROM. These correspond exactly to ISO file images, for example.

∙IDE DVD-ROM direct access

∙Floppy Disk:

∙Floppy-disk image, a flat file of the raw image of a floppy disk.

∙Floppy direct access

Please refer to Section 13, “DiskTool”, on page 161 to find out how to set up a Windows or Linux hard-drive image for the simulator.

4.1 Creating A Blank Hard-Drive Image

To create a hard-drive image use DiskTool. You can start DiskTool by launching "disktool.exe" in your install directory. For convenience, you can create a desktop shortcut to launch DiskTool. When you run DiskTool, you will see the DiskTool dialog

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