Re: More on the release.sh breakage; padding disk images
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)
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