Modern hard drives can have an HPA(host protected access partition) placed
on them; this partition is not accessible in an ordinary way. I have an old
80 gig drive with 74 megabytes of space wasted on this.
When the drive is internally connected to a computer, y6ou can use the
linux function 'hd
Answered my own question:
The command:
find . | cpio --create --format='newc' > /path/to/target,
where target is the name of the new initrd, does the trick, so long as it
is executed from the directory containing the files to be placed into the
initrd.
I took the files from a puppy, deleted th
Tried tomsrbt; was able to burn an iso with it(in img form), but it could
not run because it was expecting to see older drivers, older than even a
2004 machine, which I tried it on. As for security,
I only use it, though the modern linux kernel may hve locked it out for
that reason. The older GPM,
Now that you mention it, I have been toying with the idea of a "linux
startup disk" that would be comparable in size to a '98 startup disk';
problem is, I am too dumb to figure out how to take a
vmlinuz and boot it up. I assume the vmlinuz has a minimal number of built
in functions like the proverb
Foegot to mention: GEANY, unlike some ide's does not commandeer the
iconography of source files;
they are left as ascii files with arbitrary extensions. I like that too,
Richard Klein.
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uberSVN's rich system and user adm
Besides cranky old RHIDE, I like GEANY; it is automatically extensible to
C/C++, some basics, and at
least NASM, the only asm I like. GEANY has a linux and a windows version,
but make sure that for
windows you use a very latest version, as a couple or three numbers ago, it
would not work in windo
