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.
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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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