On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 02:31:37AM +0100, Richard Atterer wrote: > Hello, > > many of the floppy images on the FTP server currently start with 1k or more > of zero bytes. This is bad for jigdo. Would it be possible to write a > couple of random bytes somewhere in the first 1k of each image? > > "Random" can be anything which makes the images differ from each other in > the first 1k - literally random data, a timestamp, or similar. > > This is necessary because of inherent properties of the algorithm that > jigdo-file uses to find all the files inside the CD image. Currently, the > 1k of zeroes prevents the floppy images from being found, so they end up in > the .template data. > > I noticed that /some/ floppy images contain data in their first 1k. It's > not necessary to change these, just the all-zeroes ones cause problems. > > Would it be a lot of work to arrange this? You'd do me a great favour!
Those seem to be the rescue.bin files. I wouldn't be surprised if the 0's are associated with the boot block, since they are bootable floppies. -- http://Www.TruthAboutWar.org Chris Tillman - Linux Rox - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
