On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 06:16:28PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 12:09:01PM -0500, Wayne Cuddy wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 06:08:30PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 05:31:24PM -0500, Wayne Cuddy wrote:
> > > 
> > > No, it because the boot floppies use the ustarfs format, not ffs.
> > >
> > Ahh, ok this being the case, how would I mount a file system of this type?
> 
> You can't. It's a tar archive with (I think) an additionnal header.

So it sounds like once they are created they can't be modified, I guess I need
to figure out how they made those bad boys.

How do people end up handling the situation of making boot/rescue disks when
the kernel on the install disk is not configured for their hardware?

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