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Re: storeinfo /dev/fd0
From: |
Philip Charles |
Subject: |
Re: storeinfo /dev/fd0 |
Date: |
Sun, 29 Sep 2002 22:57:34 +1200 (NZST) |
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 22:04:09 +1200 (NZST)
> Philip Charles <philipc@copyleft.co.nz> 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 1.4MB floppies to 720kB.
>
> Are ramdisk supported under the hurd, if so it could be loaded by grub and
> we wouldnt need a mach 1.4MB floppy driver.
I have not got a clue, but we will need one in order to create a mini GNU
system for formatting, partitioning and installation if we are to install
the Hurd natively. Mind you I have not really started to look at this yet.
Phil.
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