Re: LS120/ZIP support
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On Wed, 3 May 2000, Randolph Chung wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Adam has asked me to add LS120/ZIP support as a source medium into
> dbootstrap. I expect to have at least part of that done by this weekend.
>
> Currently, I envision only limited support -- you'll be able to use the
> ls120/zip device as a source for drivers and base, having previously
> formatted your ls120/zip drive as a dos/vfat/linux disk. Is that the way
> most people do it? Is there a need to create a special root image for these
> devices? Should be fairly straightforward to do, actually.... I guess
> something like this would work, after building a "normal" 1.44 root.bin,
> drivers and base:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=$TMP/idefloppy.bin bs=1k count=50000 # ~50M image
> losetup /dev/loop1 $TMP/idefloppy.bin
> mke2fs -m 0 /dev/loop1
> mount /dev/loop1 $MNT/dest
> gzip -dc root.bin > $TMP/root.bin.src
> losetup /dev/loop2 $TMP/root.bin.src
> mount /dev/loop2 $MNT/src
> (cd $MNT/src ; tar cf - * | (cd ../dest ; tar xfp -))
> cp drivers.tgz $MNT/dest
> cp base2_2.tgz $MNT/dest
> [ cleanup ]
>
I have a working bootable ls120 image, based off the 2880 idepci image
with rescue.bin drivers.tgz and base2_2.tgz on it. I did not have to
change syslinux or anything for it.
I've been also puzzling out the build scripts in hopes of adding in
support for making a bootable disk, but I expect I'll need another month
for that.
Oh, and on my images (2.2.13 or .14) I had to push things into
dists/potato/.... instead of on the filesystem's root.
Since I can boot from either my ls120 or my zip disk (depending if I do a
power-on boot or not) I'd like to continue working on the bootable
superfloppy stuff. But dbootstrap support will help immensely.
> I don't have plans to support booting off the device, unless someone else
> volunteers to work on it. This is mostly because I only have an ATAPI zip
> drive which is not bootable (on my computer, at least).
>
> randolph
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