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Bug#43057: Fw: boot-floppies bug #43057 rawrite uses 8.3 names



"Glenn McGrath" <Glenn.McGrath@jcu.edu.au> writes:
> > Easy workaround to this is to rename the bootdisks.
> > Filenames have to be limited to 8.3, they cant be bigger
> > 
> > One idea would be to shorten resc to rsc and add a code to represent the
> > type of bootdisk.
> > eg.
> > resc1440.bin becomes rsc1440.bin

Well, why would this need to be renamed?  Just for consistency?

> > resc1440-safe.bin becomes rsc1440s.bin

Or even: resc144s.bin

> > resc1200.bin becomes rsc1200.bin
> > resc1200-safe.bin becomes rsc1200s.bin

Yes -- although other architectures wouldn't like this.

I think I'll just frob the -safe image names as indicated above.  It's
less of a big change...

-- 
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>


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