Re: Filesystem creation

lnordstrom
2002-05-13T02:33:10Z

Hello Riley.

On 2002-05-12 rhw@infradead.org said:

rh>> I'm trying to run the image "comb" on an IBM PS/2-30.
rh>I don't know that particular model, but have a PS/2-70 here and
rh>that has an ESDI hard drive.

AFAIK, it's an updated XT. The difference is much interface
electronics integrated on the motherboard. Video (MCGA), parport,
serport, mouse, floppy (720k) and harddisk (20M). Takes PS/2 keyboard
and mouse. Three 8 bit ISA slots.

It's even got ROM Basic. Found out when I messed with fdisk and
forgot to put a floppy in the drive.

No ESDI hard drive, no MCA slots, just a plain XT.

rh>Probably only the same problem I'm having - I don't have the
rh>foggiest how to calculate the figure to use on the mkfs line.

I guessed a block to be 1024 bytes, 2 sectors. The figures I
got doesn't divide evenly with figures from fdisk. :-(

A look in the source /include/linuxmt/fs.h leads me to believe
that the blocks are 1024 bytes long. But I'm not fluent in C so
I can't be certain.

I'll just have to wait until it's fixed. 5.5MB is plenty to
play with for the time being. :-)

Regards,
Lars

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