From: noemail@basdxcqvbe.com   
      
   On Mon, 20 Dec 2021 16:17:40 +0000   
   James Harris  wrote:   
      
   > So far I have a VBR which reads through the root dir, finds the   
   > target file, and loads its first sector.   
      
   Why wouldn't you require that the file always be the first entry in the   
   root dir? ...  That conserves space for more code, right? ...   
      
   Most OSes have special utilities which you're probably aware of that   
   place system files and structures into their proper locations on the   
   hard disk.  Yes?   
      
   So, I'd think that a simple utility should be able to switch two   
   directory entries, rewrite the first directory entry with the target   
   file, rewrite the other entry also.   
      
   > I have been working on getting that sector to walk the FAT   
      
   Avoiding this "extra" code is obviously the reason other solutions hard   
   code specific sectors.  Well, it could be extra code, if you avoided   
   doing this.   
      
   > with mkfs.fat (or mkfs.vfat)   
      
   From Linux for FAT16, I had to do something like:   
   (I'm unsure if this is complete ...)    
      
   ms-sys /dev/sdc   
   mkfs.vfat -v -F 16 /dev/sdc1   
   ms-sys -6 /dev/sdc1   
      
      
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