Subject: Re: boot-big.fs wrong size?
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
From: Frank Kardel <kardel@Nagler-Consult.COM>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/11/2000 21:04:23
On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 10:23:04AM -0500, Peter Seebach wrote:
> In message <200005100851.e4A8p5429146@Nagler-Consult.COM>, kardel@Nagler-Consul
> t.COM writes:
> >The ustarfs change has done this. That is not a real problem. Only
> >the active part of the disk image is stored as file.
> 
> I'd call it a real problem.  Try to make an ISO image with that as the boot
> image; it won't work, because it's the wrong size.
> 
Yep - thats where i found it too. I ran around it by doing a īcat "$TREE"/`uname -m`/installation/floppies/boot-big.fs /dev/zero | dd of="$TREE"/boot/bootdisk.`uname -m`  bs=1k count=2880ī.

I would prefer a full image too. I havenīt checked this week, but is the ustarfs boot code fixed
not to assume 1.44MB floopy chunks ?

> -s
Frank