Debian Boot Floppies - development

2000-10-31 Thread techservice
Grretings to the List   we are currently looking at merging the debian m68K and LinuxRouterProject to create a mac based router box.   Help needed - structure/code for the boot/rescue discs - > ref to CVS   - and/or  any other similar designs - ( I hate/dislike spending time

Re: SanDisk SDCFB 48 Partition Table

2000-10-31 Thread Glenn McGrath
Bastien CAZENAVE wrote: > > Hi, > Maybe you guys from debian-boot could know about this... > > While trying to make a CompactFlash IDE SanDisk SDCFB 48 bootable, I > experienced a problem with fdisk: > when I wrote the new partition table to disk, erasing the old DOS/FAT16 > one shipped with the

debinst: non-msdos partition table creation support

2000-10-31 Thread Glenn McGrath
I understand how msdos partition tables work now, its just a bunch of ugly hacks to make use of legacy structures that are long obsolete. msdos partitions need to be supported for machines that need microsoft compatability (and other OS's ?), but i think that we should provided users the ability