Bug#66030: tries to read past end of driver-3.bin
Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
> When installing Debian, the installation of the Driver disks reads past
> the end of drivers-3.bin (that probably what tar/gzip allways try)
>
> Normaly that wont be a problem, since a real floppy will have some spam
> after the driver-3.bin, but when using the files via loopback or in an
> emulator that results in an IO error and you are questioned to try the
> disk again.
>
> An aditional few blocks should be added to the drivers-3.bin, for example by:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero bs=1k count=100 | cat >>driver-3.bin
>
> That resolves the problem and makes Debian installable under VMware.
I agree we should pad these files out. There is a more robust way to
do it. We already do that for the other images -- see the bottom of
rescue.sh, the dd ... conv=notrunc stuff.
Any objections to making this change?
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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