On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 09:00:17PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 22:04:09 +1200 (NZST)
> Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Would you please let me know how you get on. Next step, a ramdisk.
> >
>
> Yes, i will keep you informed.
>
> I might have been able to
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 09:00:17PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
>
> I might have been able to get something working within 720kB, but i
> couldnt manage to format one of my 1.4MB floppies to 720kB.
If you mke2fs the floppy on GNU/Hurd, it'll be formatted for 720KB.
Are you using either gnumach 1.
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 22:04:09 +1200 (NZST)
> Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Would you please let me know how you get on. Next step, a ramdisk.
> >
>
> Yes, i will keep you informed.
>
> I might have been able to get something working wi
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>
> Im not sure how correct what ive done above is, however the error i get is
>
> ... hypermetadata: disk size (737280 bytes) too small superblock says we
> need 1474560
> and it ends there.
>
> storeinfo /dev/fd0 reports
> device (enf; 0x200); fd0:512:1440;737280:0+1440
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On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 22:04:09 +1200 (NZST)
Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Would you please let me know how you get on. Next step, a ramdisk.
>
Yes, i will keep you informed.
I might have been able to get something working within 720kB, but i
couldnt manage to format one of my 1.4M
block says we
> need 1474560
> and it ends there.
>
> storeinfo /dev/fd0 reports
> device (enf; 0x200); fd0:512:1440;737280:0+1440
>
> So it looks like gnumach (i assume the floppy driver is in gnumach) thinks
> my floppy is the old 720kB format rather than its actual
560
and it ends there.
storeinfo /dev/fd0 reports
device (enf; 0x200); fd0:512:1440;737280:0+1440
So it looks like gnumach (i assume the floppy driver is in gnumach) thinks
my floppy is the old 720kB format rather than its actual 1440kB.
Are 1440kB floppies supported, or have i done something
