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Re: LS120/ZIP support



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I'm posting my hacked-together images to
http://ferret.phonewave.net/boot-floppies/

Having the dbootstrap/libfdisk support will help immensely.

Just FYI:
ls120 is partitionless.
zip is usually partition 4 but CAN be partitionless as well. This was
according to format tests at my workplace with the ipmega ziptools.

I'm building the images by:

based off of resc2880-idepci
including resc1440-idepci
including modules-idepci.tgz
including base2_2.tgz


On 4 May 2000, Adam Di Carlo wrote:

> Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Cool.  I would follow-up on the bug reports.  Most the bugs that apply
> to LS/120 apply to Zip drives and vice versa, at least that is my
> impression.
> 
> > 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:
> 
> Why can't we just use 2.88MB images (already building) then?
> 
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=$TMP/idefloppy.bin bs=1k count=50000 # ~50M image
> > losetup /dev/loop1 $TMP/idefloppy.bin
> 
> I don't think it was my intention that we have a new huge image like
> this.  I mean, if that is all that's involved then why do we need a
> whole image when the can use the same techniques used for CD-booting
> or installing from DOS?
> 
> > 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).
> 
> LS/120 is already booting, according to the bug reports.
> 
> My feeling was the needed support was more about supporting the
> devices from the dbootstrap / libfdisk parts where it asks for a media
> to install *from*.  Not a whole new set of images, which seems like
> overkill to me.
> 
> -- 
> .....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
> 
> 
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