Re: More on the release.sh breakage; padding disk images
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 12:06:24PM -0500, David Huggins-Daines wrote:
> Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net> writes:
>
> > Here's another reason why it might be nice to pad *all* the disk
> > images (i.e., all those that are smaller than a full floppy): the
> > current release of VMware (2.0) chokes when reading from an image that
> > is smaller than it expects. For example, I regularly install from
>
> Yeah. This is not relevant for root.bin though, as it's not a
> filesystem, just a compressed image, and it's only read by the Linux
> kernel (which basically just reads blocks from the device until it's
> done)
But it's not the filesystem it's choking on - it's choking on being
told that root.bin is a floppy when it is not big enough to be one.
Right?
Dan
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