Re: Please help me make the .template files for Debian CDs smaller
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Richard Atterer wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:51:20PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > Those seem to be the rescue.bin files. I wouldn't be surprised if the 0's
> > are associated with the boot block, since they are bootable floppies.
>
> Yes, and I wouldn't be surprised at all if everything continued to work
> fine after you did the following to the image:
>
> dd if=/dev/random of=image bs=16 seek=63 count=1
Putting random code in the boot record is a bad idea. For sure, someone
is going to accidently boot them, and for sure the result of doing so is
undefined.
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John Summerfield
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