Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

[Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 10:19:33AM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote:
> hi,
> 
> > >    #if cpu(sparc) || #cpu(powerpc)
> > >    const char *fs_type_tab[] = {  "ext2", NULL };
> > >    #else
> > >    const char *fs_type_tab[] = { "msdos", "ext2", NULL };
> > >    #endif
> > > as you can understand is impossible for a powerpc machine
> > > to load a msdos partition, so i have modified it so:
> > >    #if cpu(sparc) || #cpu(powerpc)
> > >    const char *fs_type_tab[] = { "msdos", "ext2", NULL };
> > >    #else
> > >    const char *fs_type_tab[] = { "msdos", "ext2", NULL };
> > >    #endif
> > 
> > I changed this to :
> > 
> >  #if cpu(sparc)
> >  const char *fs_type_tab[] = { "msdos", "ext2", NULL };
> >  #else
> >  const char *fs_type_tab[] = { "msdos", "ext2", NULL };
> >  #endif
> 
> surely,
> 
> #if cpu(sparc)
> const char *fs_type_tab[] = { "ext2", NULL };
> #else
> const char *fs_type_tab[] = { "msdos", "ext2", NULL };
> #endif
>                               
> this would give the powerpc the msdos and ext2, but keep the sparc - which 
> orginally didnt have the msdos option - as it was.

Yes, that is what i meant, ...

> > Ok, but like said most amiga have only the 720/880Ko floppy variety.
> 
> most A4k's have a 1.76Mb internal, a lot of A1200 people have an external
> HD floppy, but internal was 880k - not possible to have some choose option
> (df0, df1 or skip?)

Can you boot from an external 1.76MB floppy ?

also i am not sure if it would worth it to try to support 880kb floppies, as
that would mean splitting the disks over various files, 

but 1.76MB floppies would be easily supported, almost nothing needs to be
changed, apart from the rescue disk creation. Does someone with a 1.76MB
floppy volunteer for that ?

Also, is there a way (under linux) to detect if the floppy is of the 1.76 or
the 880 variety ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther