These days, I used my spare time to study making a USB flash drive bootable with grub4dos and have some gains and progress. I'll write down some of my insights to share with everyone:
1. All the required resources can be found on Baidu: a 22.1m streamlined pe.gho (a 32m old USB flash drive can also be used); ghostexp.exe (ghost image browser) can be found in symantec ghost11; the Chinese version of winimage8.0; the latest version of grub4dos.
2. Production steps:
Step 1: Use ghostexp.exe to open the pe.gho file, select all the files inside, right-click - extract, and extract the files in the gho image to a folder you randomly create (or name it yourself) and put it there, okay.
Step 2: Open winimage, create a new blank ima image, select "Choose custom image format" for the format, confirm, then a box "Edit FAT image size" pops up, don't change it, still click confirm, and save.
Step 3: Use winimage to open the blank ima just created, select "Image" - then select "Boot sector properties" - click "win NT/2K/XP", confirm. This image is given the boot sector property of the windows NT/2K/XP type, and okay again.
Step 4: Use winimage to open the blank ima just created (already given the boot property) (Am I a bit wordy?); select "Image" - then select "Add a folder", select the "New folder" you created in step 1 (the file name is what you named yourself just now), confirm, a box pops up asking if you want to add n files, click "Yes", whoosh, it quickly adds the pe files to your blank image, and okay again. So far, the pe.ima image is successfully created (only 22.5m big oh).
Step 5: Add pe.ima to your grub4dos menu, a 32m old USB flash drive can be easily installed! Those who don't know how to use grub4dos please raise your hand!
1. All the required resources can be found on Baidu: a 22.1m streamlined pe.gho (a 32m old USB flash drive can also be used); ghostexp.exe (ghost image browser) can be found in symantec ghost11; the Chinese version of winimage8.0; the latest version of grub4dos.
2. Production steps:
Step 1: Use ghostexp.exe to open the pe.gho file, select all the files inside, right-click - extract, and extract the files in the gho image to a folder you randomly create (or name it yourself) and put it there, okay.
Step 2: Open winimage, create a new blank ima image, select "Choose custom image format" for the format, confirm, then a box "Edit FAT image size" pops up, don't change it, still click confirm, and save.
Step 3: Use winimage to open the blank ima just created, select "Image" - then select "Boot sector properties" - click "win NT/2K/XP", confirm. This image is given the boot sector property of the windows NT/2K/XP type, and okay again.
Step 4: Use winimage to open the blank ima just created (already given the boot property) (Am I a bit wordy?); select "Image" - then select "Add a folder", select the "New folder" you created in step 1 (the file name is what you named yourself just now), confirm, a box pops up asking if you want to add n files, click "Yes", whoosh, it quickly adds the pe files to your blank image, and okay again. So far, the pe.ima image is successfully created (only 22.5m big oh).
Step 5: Add pe.ima to your grub4dos menu, a 32m old USB flash drive can be easily installed! Those who don't know how to use grub4dos please raise your hand!