-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jørn Eriksen wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I found this doing a little search: > http://www.mega-tokyo.com/osfaq2/index.php/Disk%20Images%20Under%20Linux > So - I wonder - can we just use whatever geomoetry we like with a USB disk?
I believe so. As mentioned before, the concept of CHS is quite dated, and hasn't truly reflected what's physically on the disk since pretty much the advent of IDE back in (thinking...) the late 80's, early 90's? AFAIK, as long as the partition table is valid for how the disk is formatted, everything should be fine (at least for those filesystems that actually *USE* CHS info in their internal structurs...many don't, and just use logical block numbering as has been the standard on SCSI drives since roughly the dawn of time :). What I would do to make an image: Use dd to create an appropriately sized blank file (perhaps 4-8 Meg). Mount the filesystem as a loop-back device. Partition the lo device with an HDD partition table (4 main partitions). Create a bootable partition in the first primary parition. Install LRP files from an appropriate image Install desired boot loader (I'm partial to grub for this sort of thing, and it would allow using EXT3, but syslinux, lilo, or most anything should work as well). dd the image to a USB dongle. Test, then ship (or is that ship, then test...I always forget! :). I'm going to try to test the image floating around, but have been fairly short on time lately. - -- Charles Steinkuehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEJzeGLywbqEHdNFwRAqRNAJ42JzAvbfOvK2A1mBolHq6r/ya2eQCeIlH6 tfPpC1ZeYeY258e2L4y9V0M= =+ASE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
