Re: installation disk confusion
On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 03:29:01PM -0500, Steve Dunham wrote:
> Colin Telmer <telmerco@telmer.com> writes:
>
> > Hi, I have convinced some colleagues at my office to try debian and I was
> > in the midst of pointing out which slink install disks to use and ran
> > across something that has stumped me (which implies I am probably missing
> > something obvious). Anyway, there doesn't seem to be a resc1440.bin disk
> > so I thought that it was simply missing and I could look later. However,
> > there is a resc1743 disk but no drv1743 or base17-* disks. As a point of
> > curiosity, what is this new disk? A new floppy drive size? Am I missing
> > something? Thanks for any help. Cheers, Colin.
>
> It's a special format for 1.44MB disks. A bad idea, IMHO.
I agree. ;-)
> BTW, are we going to have a resc1440 disk? The 1.743MB disks can't be
> created from DOS, and won't work on my laptop anyways. (They don't
> even boot.)
The 1.743MB was a temporary solution because the rescue disk didn't
fitted in 1.44MB (bigger slang, bigger libc, bigger kernel, ...).
I've fixed that for boot-floppies_2.1.1, and will upload them RSN.
Thanks,
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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