Re: Upcoming Debian Releases
In your email to me, Giuliano Procida, you wrote:
>
> Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> wrote:
>
> [snip]
> > Things that I consider to be important but have not had time to check:
> [snip]
> > * Boot floppies should be able to recognize MS-DOS partitions.
>
> If you are interested in testing experimental support for msdos
> partitions please take a look at ftp://pootle.magd.am.ac.uk/ . Note
> that this stuff's purpose is primarly to allow the installation of
> Debian _onto_ DOS partitions using a pseudo root. A lot of the code
> for installing _from_ msdos partitions is now in the current unstable
> boot-floppies.
>
> I have gzipped patches against the latest boot-floppies for the
> interested (26K) and Debian install files ready to be stuck in DOS
> partition and installed (9M). I would really appreciate a couple of
> beta testers at this point so that I can see how well things work for
> other people. There are some known problems, see the READMEs and the
> PROBLEMS file. Thanks in advance if you give a try.
Along the same lines...
We have a debian box here co-existing with win95-osr2 which has the
FAT32 partitions. Debian can't mount these partitions. Has any tried
this and succeeded?
Tim
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