Re: Accessing partitions in drive images

2012-01-29 Thread Ben Scott
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: >>   Because then we wouldn't be able to use a flash drive/card bigger >> than 2.88 MB. >> >>   (I think 2.88 MB is the biggest floppy disk size defined by IBM-PC >> conventions.  But if there are others, they're around that size.) > > Wh

Re: Accessing partitions in drive images

2012-01-29 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott writes: > > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen > wrote: > >> Flash drives wouldn't work as floppies, so they're treated as fixed > >> disks. > > > > What does this mean? Why wouldn't USB sticks or MMC/SD cards work > > `as floppies'? > > Because then we wouldn't be

Re: Yum errors

2012-01-29 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:34 PM, M D L <41mag...@liberty.eprci.com> wrote: > ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve: > libibus-1.0.so.0()(64bit) is needed by ibus-hangul-1.4.0-1.fc15.x86_64 > Please report this error in http://yum.baseurl.org/report > Package ibus-libs-1.4.0-11.fc15.x86_64 already

Re: Accessing partitions in drive images

2012-01-29 Thread Ben Scott
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: >> Flash drives wouldn't work as floppies, so they're treated as fixed >> disks. > > What does this mean? Why wouldn't USB sticks or MMC/SD cards work > `as floppies'? Because then we wouldn't be able to use a flash drive/card bigger t

Re: Accessing partitions in drive images

2012-01-29 Thread Jon "maddog" Hall
On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 16:34 -0500, michael miller wrote: > The number of columns on a hollerith card. Why are there 80 columns on > a hollerith card? Well, actually there were many different size "Hollerith cards", and there were at least two sizes of "IBM cards", the familiar 80-column card, and

Re: Accessing partitions in drive images

2012-01-29 Thread Jon "maddog" Hall
On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 15:50 -0500, Jeffry Smith wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > > Next up: Why are console windows traditionally 80 columns wide? > > > Because of the size of the US Dollar. The 1887 US Dollar. > > ___ > g

Re: Accessing partitions in drive images

2012-01-29 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott writes: > > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen > wrote: > > I've always wondered: why do the little USB flash sticks, > > SD cards, etc. all include a partition-table with one > > partition? Why don't they just use whole-device filesystems? > > Because they're not

Re: Accessing partitions in drive images

2012-01-29 Thread michael miller
The number of columns on a hollerith card. Why are there 80 columns on a hollerith card? Mike On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 15:38 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen > wrote: > > I've always wondered: why do the little USB flash sticks, > > SD cards, etc. all

Re: Accessing partitions in drive images

2012-01-29 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Ben Scott wrote: >  Next up: Why are console windows traditionally 80 columns wide? > Because of the size of the US Dollar. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/li

Re: Accessing partitions in drive images

2012-01-29 Thread Ben Scott
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > I've always wondered: why do the little USB flash sticks, > SD cards, etc. all include a partition-table with one > partition? Why don't they just use whole-device filesystems? Because they're not floppy disks, and fixed disks are a

Re: Accessing partitions in drive images

2012-01-29 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott writes: > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Michael ODonnell > wrote: > > most filesystems do normally reside on partitions > > but that's not actually inherent in the design of the system ... > > Not inherent in the design of *nix systems, certainly. Or computers > in general. B