Dan Swartzendruber
Fri, 3 Dec 1999 20:04:55 -0800
At 01:18 AM 12/4/99 +0000, Ramon Gandia wrote: >Civileme wrote: >> >> Correct, now that I have tested mkbootdisk. It looks like it's close, though. I'll >> check the source when I get a chance. >> >> Never tried that particular utility before..... I don't see any burning need for that >> particular support (LS-120 to make a boot floppy) but now my curiosity has been picqued. > >If I had to do it quick and dirty, I would write the boot floppy >IMAGE to the hard drive, then dd that to the boot LS-120 floppy >(not cartridge, I mean floppy). I think that would work. But I'd >like to see Civileme's proposed hack of mkbootdisk. > >Are you going to add an option to mkbootdisk, something like >mkbootdisk --ls120 linux-2.2.14-3 or are you going to make >an ls120 program for it like "mkls120boot" or you going to put >in some autodetection in the program so that running mkbootdisk >will determine whether it has a floppy, a cartridge or whatever >and behave accordingly? That would be nice, but I would be satisfied (for now anyway) if it could work with a vanilla floppy.