Lee Kimber wrote about "[leaf-user] WISP partition questions":

> But I'd like to create a second partition for WISP's read/write files...
> 
> Now I looking at shoving an ancient Antec Descartes CF card reader/writer 
> in a separate Linux box so I'm wondering if people have successfully 
> partitioned and formatted the CF card for WISP using straightforward Linux 
> fdisk and fdformat?

Yes. No need for fdformat though.

> 
> Also, is the second partition to be DOS or minix or does it not matter?

It would be minix, but what you set as partition type shouldn't matter.

> I've got an 8MB CF card so in theory I can dd the 
> wisp-dist_2348_img_wdist.bin file on the LEAF downloads page. But... I can 
> get this binary to yield its .img content. I've made it executable but 
> executing it doesn't do anything. Is this a MacBinary? I'll bet I'm missing 
> something else so I'm looking for a clue!

Wait, this *is* an image. In other words, it's already 
"extracted" and ready to be dd'ed. :-)

> I'll also be trying to work out how to get a RTL8019AS driver on to the CF 
> but I reckon I'll be able to work that out on my own.

What is the usual Linux driver for it? ne2k-pci?

-- 
Best Regards,
Vladimir
Systems Engineer (RHCE)


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