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Linux-ia64 Bill Nottingham 2 participants 2 messages Dec 7, 2000

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|> Yes, they can be. It's kind of odd, but it's necessary if
|> you want to use the same boot image for a disk and for
|> the CD (unless you try and fit an ia64 boot image into
|> a normal floppy size, which would be rather tight.)

What's wrong with just copying the files to the floppy? There is no requirement that the boot floppy has a particular size.

True. It's just that if you try to use anything greater than 2.88MB for a CDROM boot image, it has to be partitioned, and you save some CD space if you use the same boot image file for both CD and LS-120.

Bill

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Bill Nottingham <[email protected]> writes:

|> Andreas Schwab ([email protected]) said: 
|> > |> Yes, they can be. It's kind of odd, but it's necessary if
|> > |> you want to use the same boot image for a disk and for
|> > |> the CD (unless you try and fit an ia64 boot image into
|> > |> a normal floppy size, which would be rather tight.)
|> > 
|> > What's wrong with just copying the files to the floppy?  There is no
|> > requirement that the boot floppy has a particular size.
|> 
|> True. It's just that if you try to use anything greater than 2.88MB
|> for a CDROM boot image, it has to be partitioned

There is no problem to make a CDROM boot image of any size, for the ia64 at least. Just specify -no-emul-boot when creating the CD image.

Andreas.

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