From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Nottingham Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 14:37:47 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] Re: fail to mount LS120 drive Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Francis Galiegue (fg@mandrakesoft.com) said: > If not, what does a fdisk -l /dev/hdb give on an LS120 floppy? And in general, > can LS120 floppies be partitioned? I doubt it... Yes, they can be. It's kind of odd, but it's necessary if you want to use the same boot image for a disk and for the CD (unless you try and fit an ia64 boot image into a normal floppy size, which would be rather tight.) Bill