Re: CF-root

[ŁPP Rosa <rosa@poznan.telbank.pl>]

----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 5:51 PM
Subject: CF-root

Hello!

> Unfortunately, the kernel and initrd didnt fit on the floppy. I
> checked the size of the kernel -was 1.3mb, so re compiled without out as
> much as i thought i could get away with, got it down to 900k, but the
> initrd.gz is 600k, so still wouldnt fit on the floppy! I think its
Have you try to format floppy to not standard capacity, for example more
than 1.44MB?
./fdformat /dev/fd0u1722
Virtually all 1.44 drives support 1.722 just fine, but it is possible for
an extended format to break a floppy drive, use it at YOUR OWN RISK!
Use /dev/fd0u1722 to mount it, /dev/fd0 or /dev/fd0H1440 probably will not
work.
I have no idea if it will work - if you can boot with it... but it's the
only thing I can think of now :^).

good luck - rosa -

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