On 1/31/02 at 9:42 PM, malik menzong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One more question that keeps bugging is the following. I > made an 1.68 image that is self contained and a 1.44 ima > as well. Everytime I boot from the cd and I make a change > if I tried to back up the changes on the 1440 image it > complains. so I do backup the change on the 1.68 ima. they > do update fine. but when I am trying to boot from the cd > and the 1.68 image (the one containing the changes) is in > it the floppy disk drive, it give me an error and requires > that I mount instead the 1.440 floppy which has no back > up.
I'm not sure I followed all that, but there are some things to remember: Oxygen is not set up to use 1.44 floppies by default anywhere. By this I mean when you do a backup it uses 1.68M floppies (or tries to); the configurations (*.cfg files) all assume 1.68M floppies; etc. If you want to back up to 1.44M floppies I tend to do: mount /dev/fd0u1440 /mnt/floppy cd /tmp apkg -c <whateverpkg> cp <whateverpkg>.lrp /mnt/floppy umount /mnt/floppy ...crude (somewhat), but it works. /dev/backup is supposed to eventually be used in this capacity - so that 1.44M floppies or 1.68M floppies could be used for default backup disks by apkg and bpkg. Secondly, when you boot from floppy you can control what formats the disks are in that are requested - look at oxygen.cfg and other *.cfg files for what you want. oxygen.cfg is the default for floppy boots, and cdrom.cfg is the default for CDROM boots. Thirdly, when the CDROM boots, your configurations are fixed since they are on CDROM - if you need a 1.68M floppy, that's what you need. Fourthly, you need to format the 1.68M floppies for use beforehand - using a 1.44M floppy off the shelf doesn't work. The CDROM should come with syslinux.lrp and fdformat.lrp just for this purpose. It would also help to know what the error messages or warnings are - you didn't say - more details, please. -- David Douthitt UNIX Systems Administrator HP-UX, Unixware, Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
