On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 14:58, Lynn Avants wrote: > On Thursday 30 October 2003 02:35 am, John P. Looney wrote: > [...] > > Hmm. But it's a lot handier to use 'dd' than anything else. I used to > > work for a company called Antefacto; we did our own linux distro (based > > on redhat 7.2, I think), that had a nice build script. Pretty much; > [...] > > It makes since if you are using the same CF card and the specs can be > assumed. However if the size/setup of the cards are not exactly the > same, you have a huge problem. Floppies are a safe assumption to 'dd' > to, but 8M,16M,32M,64M,... CF's are generally not. What kind of surprise > would you get putting a 8M image on a 64M CF card?
I think it'll work, depending on how the IDE interface reports back the CHS settings. We had great fun even on different models of 64MB cards - some are 6.4e+7 some are 1024*1024*64 - some are a mix of the two. But, you could just add something to query the size of the CF in the machine first. That script was part of a read-only CF based distro that was built every night from SRPMs and CVS, so it had to be very automated. john ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
