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



How about using '12' and '14', like with the base and drivers images.

On 11 Nov 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> "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...


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