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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: fail to mount LS120 drive
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 15:02:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590678205814@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590678205809@msgid-missing>

Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> writes:

|> 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.)

What's wrong with just copying the files to the floppy?  There is no
requirement that the boot floppy has a particular size.

Andreas.

-- 
Andreas Schwab                                  "And now for something
SuSE Labs                                        completely different."
Andreas.Schwab@suse.de
SuSE GmbH, Schanzäckerstr. 10, D-90443 Nürnberg


      parent reply	other threads:[~2000-12-07 15:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-07 14:25 [Linux-ia64] Re: fail to mount LS120 drive Bill Nottingham
2000-12-07 14:37 ` Bill Nottingham
2000-12-07 14:59 ` Einar Saltnes
2000-12-07 15:02 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]

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