Previous on Debian bugreport #283279: On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 02:46:14AM +0100, Pascal de Bruijn wrote: > Geert Stappers wrote: > >About capacity of floppies: > >What fits on a LS120 diskette? > >Could it hold a kernel and the initrd? > > > Aha, well, that will fit easily... way easily... A LS120 drive isn't > called an LS120 drive for fun ( :p )... It can take 120MB of data. > But these disks are fairly hard to come by these days... I don't have > any myself, I just use it as a plain floppy drive, it saves cabling and > the likes... > > But the base IDE code is already included in the current kernels right? > so only the ATAPI floppy code would need to be added (and some > relatively minor script changes)... I have no clue, how much code/data > that would be. ( Don't have any installed systems handy right now. ) Pascal, Where you are asking others to do some coding, what about to test the boot.img.gz from http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/ on a LS120 disk? > Regards, > Pascal de Bruijn > > PS: Maybe I should just invest 8 euros in a plain ol' floppy drive :s That will help one man, you could be helping mankind. Cheers Geert Stappers
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