[parisc-linux] palo, f0 partition (Re: Network install on 712/80)

[parisc-linux] palo, f0 partition (Re: Network install on 712/80)

[Paul Bame]

The f0 partition needs to be able to hold one recovery kernel plus 265k plus
some roundoff -- so minimum size should probably be 8M just to be safe.

f0 is capable of holding both a narrow and a wide kernel plus a ramdisk,
which is how the installer works.  After woody perhaps we can arrange
for the install to put a recovery ramdisk as well as the customary
recovery kernel, into the f0 partition.  For that, 16M is probably
a good size.

	-P

Re: [parisc-linux] palo, f0 partition (Re: Network install on 712/80)

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 08:35:49AM -0700, Paul Bame wrote:
> 
> The f0 partition needs to be able to hold one recovery kernel plus 265k plus
> some roundoff -- so minimum size should probably be 8M just to be safe.
> 
> f0 is capable of holding both a narrow and a wide kernel plus a ramdisk,
> which is how the installer works.  After woody perhaps we can arrange
> for the install to put a recovery ramdisk as well as the customary
> recovery kernel, into the f0 partition.  For that, 16M is probably
> a good size.

So, can I use "parted" to resize it?

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Re: [parisc-linux] palo, f0 partition (Re: Network install on 712/80)

[Richard Hirst]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 05:40:28PM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 08:35:49AM -0700, Paul Bame wrote:
> > 
> > The f0 partition needs to be able to hold one recovery kernel plus 265k plus
> > some roundoff -- so minimum size should probably be 8M just to be safe.
> > 
> > f0 is capable of holding both a narrow and a wide kernel plus a ramdisk,
> > which is how the installer works.  After woody perhaps we can arrange
> > for the install to put a recovery ramdisk as well as the customary
> > recovery kernel, into the f0 partition.  For that, 16M is probably
> > a good size.
> 
> So, can I use "parted" to resize it?

Don't know what parted would make of that; it doesn't understand about
'f0' partitions, so may not let you try to resize them.  You could
probably use parted to make enough space for a bigger one, then use
fdisk to actually create it.  you could use parted to create it, but
parted wont let you set the type to 'f0'.

Richard