中国DOS联盟

"Virtual Boot", where "virtual" refers to "virtual CD-ROM (ISO image)" and "virtual floppy drive (IMG/IMA image)"; "boot" here means booting ISO/IMA/IMG images/partitions/systems, etc. This small tool is 1.40 MB, integrates some common tools and enhanced tools, has low technical content, and is purely for convenience (all the following small tools support ntfs, ext2fs, ext3fs, and hidden fat partitions). The IO.SYS in the disk is not afraid of logical locks. There is no Chinese character system. Thanks to the developers of Grub4DOS and the VT Chinese character display technology of this product.
Main functions:
1. qboot: Directly boot ISO/IMG/IMA images on the hard disk, the x-th hard disk, the y-th primary partition, multiple systems..., for example, now in the d:\image directory, dir finds a dm.img, just press Enter after qboot dm.img... The GUI interface can use the mouse to browse, search, and operate the object. To be honest, it is really a waste of this powerful software to let Grub4DOS play that little function.
2. vcdrom: Virtual CD-ROM under pure DOS, the GUI interface supports manually using the mouse to browse ISO images and virtualize a CD-ROM, and the command line can virtualize multiple CD-ROMs. For example, now in the d:\iso directory, dir finds msdos.iso, mycd.iso, winxp.iso, Linux.iso. Run vcdrom msdos.iso mycd.iso winxp.iso linux.iso to virtualize 4 CD-ROMs at one time, making it as convenient to use ISO files as physical CD-ROMs.
3. vfloppy: Virtual floppy drive under pure DOS, similar to the virtual CD-ROM, virtualizes IMG and IMA images into a hard disk drive letter, making it as convenient to use IMG/IMA floppy images as using a local disk.
Additional software:
aefdsk: The aefdisk from Deepin, a smart partitioning tool supporting 2TB large hard disks, simple to operate, can be completed with a click of the mouse.
onekey: Pocket one-key GHOST, backs up and restores the first partition of the first hard disk. This boot disk is 1.40 MB, so it cannot hold the cloning software ghost.exe. After the program runs, it will automatically search for the GHOST.EXE program in your hard disk (including NTFS partitions or Linux partitions), so make sure there is a GHOST.EXE program in the root directory or first-level directory of one of your disks. If your computer runs GHOST very slowly or cannot be opened, in the GUI interface, please reselect and disable IDE, USB, 1394 in the disabled devices, and then try backing up and restoring.
Auxiliary functions:
ifs: Needless to say, the Chinese version of ntfs, ext2fs, ext3fs, and hidden fat partition reading and writing drivers.
unpack: Universal decompression tool, supports decompression of cab/rar/zip/arj/uha/img/ima compressed packages or images, convenient to use, has a GUI interface, and can also be operated in the command line. For example, currently in the d:\rar, dir finds msdos.rar, run unpack msdos.rar to decompress to the current directory, retaining the path structure in the original compressed package. If you want to decompress hack.uha, just run unpack hack.uha, and unpack will automatically judge the extension of the given file name.
qsearch: Search engine under pure DOS. For example, if you want to boot an IMG/IMA image but don't know where the image is, run qsearch, enter the keyword *.im? (* represents any number of characters,? represents any one character), click "S Search", the program will automatically search for IMG/IMA images in the root directory and first-level directory of all existing drives in your hard disk, and list the search results, file size, and creation date. If you want to boot IMG/IMA, according to the search result, qboot the full path of IMG/IMA. If in the command line, you need to bring the /r parameter to indicate searching the first-level directory, qsearch *.im? /r.
qbrown: Similar to the "Browse..." button in Windows, used to browse directories or files, and the browsing result is saved to the environment variable result. qbrown /? gets help. Specifically, if result is a long file name under DOSlfn, run qlfn83 to organize result into an 8.3 format short path name for application call.
As for others, there is nothing to say about driving IDE/SATA CD-ROMs and driving USB2.0 plug-and-play devices.
Note: If you have run usecd, useusb or other programs except ctmouse and IFS (qboot will automatically unload these two TSRs), if you want to use qboot again, due to the particularity of Grub4DOS, you must unload these additional TSRs first. There are no other requirements.

















Download link: http://upload.cn-dos.net/img/983.rar

Last edited by xiaoyunwang on 2008-10-20 at 08:40 ]

What a great thing! Thanks to the landlord!

Support~
Come down and take a look

Thanks, downloaded already. Support the building to continue researching...

Successfully booted the win98iso.iso on my hard drive using this floppy image driver from the hard drive. After restarting, it failed to boot the tfwinpe.iso to the final boot stage, but being able to boot win98iso.iso is enough to show the power of this tool.
Don't understand the edit the owner used, it doesn't seem to be the usual edit we use. Is it grub4dos? Not very懂.
Don't know if the disc image on the USB can be booted on the USB...

Boot from USB flash drive, then boot the CD image on the hard drive, but cannot enter into grub>.
It is possible that booting the CD image on the USB flash drive is not supported. This breakthrough may be relatively difficult.
Extract the 2.8m qboot.img from the decompressed qboot.img, load the image with the grub on the USB flash drive, and successfully boot the CD image on the hard drive. It seems that the previous problem was mainly about compression. The super USB flash drive DOS boot disk should also have this problem.
Moreover, the highlights of this boot disk are mainly in vcdrom and vfloppy, thanks!

Last edited by julon on 2008-11-1 at 22:20 ]

This tool can be said to be powerful and classic, and the more you use it, the better you feel! The original edit was replaced by the English version of edit from DOS 7.1.
I once extracted all files to the USB flash drive and ran them, but it's not as fast as loading the image.
Now I have this boot item on both the hard drive and the USB flash drive.

Last edited by julon on 2008-11-4 at 09:24 ]

Originally posted by julon at 2008-11-4 09:23 AM:
This tool can be said to be powerful and classic, and the more you use it, the better you feel! The original edit was replaced by the English version of edit from DOS 7.1.
I once released all files to the USB flash drive for running, but it is not as fast as loading the image.
I now ...

The above statement is exaggerated. There are still many shortcomings in this tool. One day, when I have time, I will update it. I will no longer use minito to analyze drive letters and paths. minito's analysis of drive letters may be inaccurate or there are some bugs on some computers. I plan to use PSI and IFS, which can be best matched. Using PSI to analyze drive letters and convert them into Grub processing format is better, more compatible, and more universal. I forgot to add the function of booting .GZ or .ZIP compressed images here, and also need to add functions like booting ISO images with ISOEMU to be considered "powerful, classic, and the more you use it, the better you feel". It is also welcome for netizens to modify it by themselves. Hehe, don't forget to share it.

Last edited by xiaoyunwang on 2008-11-11 at 20:12 ]

Looking forward to and paying attention... The LZ has worked hard!
Also, since WinPE can boot from the USB flash drive (run in a virtual disk), then it is possible to achieve the boot of the CD image in the USB flash drive.
It sounds simple, but it's actually difficult to do, especially for us who only know how to use it but not how to make it.

Last edited by julon on 2008-11-12 at 07:01 ]

It can be seen that the original poster is definitely an expert in DOS. Your ultimate DOS is very powerful, but it's a bit not going smoothly when booting with the image under XP. Its size is a bit large on a limited USB flash drive, and since I don't know how to load it, I haven't run it yet (can it be divided into a series of floppy disk image tool disks in the future, so that it can be selected and loaded in GRUB). I didn't succeed in booting the ISO image with the DOS file of ISOEMU. Because the USB flash drive is partitioned, the second partition is not read normally under DOS.

Originally posted by julon at 2008-11-12 07:11 AM:
It can be seen that the landlord is definitely a master in DOS. Your ultimate DOS is very powerful, but there are some difficulties when booting with the image under XP. Its size is a bit large on a limited USB flash drive. Because I don't know how to load...

"The ultimate DOS" still needs to be modified. It should increase the default selection support for USB keyboard/mouse, also add a GUI graphical interface navigation menu and synchronous instructions, also need to delete some tools with repetitive functions and add some stronger Chinese localized software with multiple composite functions. In addition, the "ultimate DOS" soft image setting value is unreasonable, the boot method is also unreasonable, and it may not be able to boot on a few computers. The stability of the toolbox is also not good. That's why I just found out why other toolboxes have versions like 1.0, 1.2... The first time is definitely not perfect.
For "Ultimate DOS", I have decomposed it into multiple images, but these useful tools are far more than these. I have a 700 MB pure floppy disk image here (including various DOS software and manufacturer tools) waiting for analysis and testing. For those partially decomposed images, I will upload them when I have time.
I am currently using Windows 2003 Enterprise Server Edition, and it seems that the "Upload" button is invalid when clicked.
It won't be long before a multi-functional "Terminator Software CD" is launched for everyone. But the expansion of Windows XPE and the Chinese version of PC3000 and other things may still take some time. But I will also upload each small image when I have time.
Please note: There are people selling the Chinese version of PC3000 on "Taobao" now. That only needs to add the initial Chinese character font processing driver, and that is their Chinese version of PC3000. Don't be deceived.

Last edited by xiaoyunwang on 2008-11-12 at 13:59 ]

Good stuff, continue to look forward to...

I found a BUG inside, which is caused by modifying IO.SYS to be fearless of logical locks, resulting in inaccurate or even unrecognition of FAT32 partitions under DOS. After adding ifs, it can be recognized, but after exiting ifs, the FAT32 partition is regarded as illegal, so that pocket one-key GHOST backup and recovery may fail due to path errors. The system is also very unstable because of this IO.SYS. For friends who have used qboot in advance, please replace the IO.SYS in this disk with the IO.SYS in the webmaster's super boot disk. It seems that the method of modifying IO.SYS to be fearless of logical locks mentioned online is very unsuccessful.