Successfully able to create a disk-image file

- Created a scripts folder
- Written instructions on how to create the disk image
- Working on a python build script that executes all other scripts

The scripts folder should contain scripts to build a full installation of
our operating system. Scripts like creating a filesystem should be found here

Makefile

@@ -60,6 +60,9 @@ test:
 
 test_iso: 
 	$(EMULATOR)  -boot d -cdrom $(BUILD_DIR)/barinkOS.iso -serial stdio -vga std -display gtk -m 2G -cpu core2duo 
+test_disk:
+	$(EMULATOR) -boot d -drive format=raw,file=disk.img -serial stdio -vga std -display gtk -m 2G -cpu core2duo 
+
 
 build_kernel: $(OBJ_LINK_LIST)
 	$(CC) -T $(SRC_DIR)/kernel/linker.ld -o $(BUILD_DIR)/myos.bin \

scripts/build.py

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python3
+import os
+import subprocess
+
+
+print("Building BarinkOS")
+
+
+# list and run build scripts
+print("Running build-scripts")
+os.chdir("scripts")
+
+scripts=os.listdir()
+currentScript=os.path.basename(__file__)
+
+if currentScript in scripts:
+    scripts.remove(currentScript)
+
+
+for script in scripts:
+    print(os.getcwd())
+    print("Running:" + script)
+    subprocess.call(script, cwd=os.getcwd())
+
+os.chdir("..")

scripts/create-filesystem.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# How to build a boot image 
+# NOTE: This script cant run properly yet 
+# Things described here should be done manually for now
+# 
+# COPYRIGHT © Nigel Barink 2023
+#
+
+echo "Building a FAT16 filesystem"
+
+
+su 
+
+# dd if=/dev/zero of=diks.img bs=512 count=131072
+# fdisk disk.img
+# Use the following options in fdisk (Format Disk Tool)
+# We want to create a MBR (NOT GPT) Partition table containing 1 logical disk 
+# with a primary FAT16 partition marked bootable
+
+#OPTIONs
+
+# Create new DOS disklabel
+# o
+# Create new partition
+# n
+# Choose Primary as partition type
+# p
+# hit enter to choose default for the other options
+
+# Mark partition 1 as bootable
+# a
+
+# Change partition type to FAT16
+# t
+# Choose Partition 1
+# 1
+# Choose HEX 6 for FAT16
+# 6
+
+# Sync and write changes to disk
+# w
+
+# Create a "block" device from the disk.img
+# losetup /dev/loop9 disk.img
+
+# Format the partition on the disk as FAT16
+# mkdosfs -F16 /dev/loop9
+
+# Mount the disk to a folder on our dev machine
+# mount /dev/loop9 /mnt
+
+# Install the grub bootloader onto the disk 
+# grub-install --no-floppy --modules="normal multiboot" /dev/loop9 --target=i386-pc --boot-directory=/mnt/boot --force
+
+# copy the necessary OS files 
+# cp root/boot/myos.bin /mnt/boot/myos.bin
+# cp root/boot/grub/grub.cfg /mnt/boot/grub/grub.cfg
+
+# Unmount the device
+# umount /mnt
+
+# Destroy the loop device 
+# losetup -d /dev/loop9

scripts/test.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+start=`date +%s`
+end=`date +%s`
+echo That took $((end-start)) seconds
+date +"%c" -d195440409