Yes! it does work. Of course you cannot use the hard disk for anything else. You can't partition AND do this James
On Friday 16 February 2007 05:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:47:24 -0000, Verner Kj?rsgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > >> - I dd a floppy startup image from www.rom-o-matic.org directly to the > >> hardware disk, say /dev/hda1 > >> - that would really raw-write to the disk from the very start of it, > >> right? But, it would work. Of course, it would quite effectively wipe > >> the disk, but it wouldn't matter,- it would work? > >> > > > > yes, should do > > > > No, it can not work. A bootable floppy has not the same structure than a > bootable hard disk: floppies do not have partitions table. And (as far > as I remember) the boot sector of a disk partition is not the same as > the boot sector of a floppy. > > Somebody can confirm? > > > > > > >> - the second one I don't understand. May I ask, what's a zdisk image? If > >> I get a zdisk image, I then tell GRUB about its whereabouts, just as if > >> it was an ordinary kernel image? > >> > > > > exactly right! if you get your roms from rom-o-matic, the .zdisk is one > > of the image options, but I got this wrong, you should select .zlilo > > image for booting via GRUB or LILO (same image will work for both), and > > yes you add them to the grub menu.lst just like a kernel image ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
