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.
