From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.iinet.net.au (symphony-01.iinet.net.au [203.59.24.16]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 87A82482A for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 12:03:19 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 02:03:02 +0800 From: Andrew Shugg To: parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org, debian-hppa@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Version 0.9 of PA-RISC Linux Released Message-ID: <20010602020300.A20205@neep.com.au> References: <20010601030203.EE8B937EF8@carmen.fc.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20010601030203.EE8B937EF8@carmen.fc.hp.com>; from taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:02:03PM -0600 List-ID: Congratulations, team, on making the release! I had a quick look the files which I found here: http://puffin.external.hp.com/pub/parisc/cd-images/ A couple of questions arose: - what's the 142MB "gg" file dated "01-Jun-2001 10:23"? I mean, I know who gg is (hi grant) but as this file is of around the same vintage as all the 0.9 compressed ISOs I thought I'd see if it was related - are all the 0.9 ISOs identical except for which kernel is booted by default? eg does the 0.9-32bit-STI CD image also contain the kernels for the 32bit-serial and 64bit-serial installs? Oh, hang on, I see my second question is already answered by the footer of the above HTTP directory listing, but I'll leave it in for the archives I guess. Answer is: You can change one 0.9 ISO into another by replacing the first 512 bytes. For example, to change the 32serial into the 64serial, do dd bs=512 conv=notrunc if=palinux-0.9-64serial.iso.sector0 \ of=palinux-0.9-32serial.iso You probably want to rename the file too... I see the same information is provided in a more brief form at the bottom of the 0.9 README. Oh well, pardon my ramblings. ;) Andrew. -- Andrew Shugg http://www.neep.com.au/ "Just remember, Mr Fawlty, there's always someone worse off than yourself." "Is there? Well I'd like to meet him. I could do with a good laugh."