Re: Call for info: slave drives bootable from OpenFirmware (OldWorl d)
Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:
> no 800K not 32MB. 32MB is a rediculous and absurd waste of space.
> out of 800K less then 100 are actually used for yaboot/ofboot. (but
> HFS requires a minimum of 800K)
If you happen to have any, ahem, other operating systems, that uses,
say, HFS+, which linux doesn't handle well right now (afaik), you can
use this partition not only as a bootstrap, but also as a place to
exchange files between Linux, and the other OS.
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