Subject: Re: FAT filesystem conformance on the installation floppy disks
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Pierre Pronchery <khorben@defora.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/09/2007 15:11:33
Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 05:15:01AM +0100, Pierre Pronchery wrote:
>> I am currently writing a tool to assist the analysis of firmware images
>> [1], and as part of this I thought it would be adequate to implement
>> detection of FAT filesystems.
>>
>> I know that, given the history of the format, the FAT "standard" hardly
>> matters. However, I think it would be better to give whoever potential
>> new user running foo-knows-what OS a better chance to read the disk
>> properly.
> 
> Uh.  What makes you think these are FAT filesystems, exactly?

I was assuming, since some oem information was by coincidence (or not)
located at the same place. Sorry for the noise.

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khorben