On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Richard Atterer wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 11:37:22AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > A problem with workarounds is that they lack convenience, and people will > > forget. May I suggest a bug report against mke2fs and mkfs.minux?. > > Probably people will still forget (unless it's default behaviour), but > > the docs might prompt a few. > > Changing mke2fs would affect far too many other people, I don't think that > would be a good idea.
There's room in an ext2 filesystem for a boot record, that's how you can boot ext2 floppies and put your boot loader into the partition. The best judge of its harmfulness or otherwise is its upstream maintainer. A bug report would serve as a prompt for consideration of the idea. > I don't know how the floppies are created, but wouldn't it be possible to > change the script that generates them? Sure. Then it gets forgotten in a future rewrite. Seems to me a boot record is a good thin for other reasons. What happens if you boot a floppy that begins with a bunch of binary zeros? -- Cheers John Summerfield Please, no off-list mail at all at all. This address accepts mail only from Debian lists. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
