"DeLisle, Seth (GE Infrastructure)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I was able to get this to work using a patched version of mkdosfs,
> and by moving to FAT32.
What did your mkdosfs patch do?
I went back and read your old messages, where you said this:
First, the boot sector has stored in within it, the absolute
sector offset of the partition, and uses that to calculate where
to find the begining of the root directory of the FAT filesystem.
I followed the links you sent, but I did not see where in the boot
sector any absolute sector numbers appear. Could you elaborate?
You also said:
Second, the geometry of the drive is stored in the bootsector, and
used to get from the begining of the partition to the root
directory.
I certainly believe this, given the dual-boot problems experienced by
people installing Fedora Core 2. But where did you find this
information? It, too, was not in the links you sent.
> For in-house purposes we can now install completely over HTTPS. In
> fact we're scheduled to deploy a really nasty-complex application of
> ours to a site in India, from our sever in Oregon, using a (heavily)
> modified version of unattended.
OK, now *that* is cool.
If you feel like writing this up in some detail, I would love to put
it on our "testimonials" page. (We have no "testimonials" page. But
if you write this up, I will make one.)
> I'll dig up that patch and post it as soon as I get a second. The
> other posted it to the binutils mailing list in an attempt to get
> Redhat's attention.
I was unable to follow that last sentence. Come again?
- Pat
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