On Mon, 11 May 1998, Stacy Brodzik wrote:
> I am trying to install RedHat LINUX on a PC for the first time. I
> successfully created the boot disk from "boot.img" and RAWRITE.EXE.
> After the floppy was created, I was able to "dir" the contents of it.
> However, when I tried to do the same thing to create the supplemental
> disk, something odd is happening. I used "supp.img" and RAWRITE.EXE
> as before and everything seemed to work ok. But when I tried to do
> a "dir" on the new floppy, I can't switch to the A:> drive and I'm
> told that the disk is not formatted. Is this how it should be? Is
> this a floppy that only a LINUX OS will recognize??
>
>
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> Stacy Brodzik INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Yes and yes. The root filesystem is typically a minix filesystem, which
saves a little space over a more native ext2 fs. A dos dir command works
ONLY on a dos-formatted disk, and isn't really working on the boot disk
either. A boot disk has a kernel file written to it in raw format at the
beginning of the disk-- if dos' dir command still works it is pure
coincidence and the info from it is probably all lies.
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