Re: floppies' .bin

1999-11-30 Thread John Pearson
If you want to find out about the boot & base floppies, install the boot-floppies package that is used to build them. While it's not intended as a tutorial, it contains the information you're looking for. Floppy-split is a utility that comes with boot-floppies that splits a file across several d

Re: floppies' .bin

1999-11-30 Thread Oki DZ
Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: > $ file /cdrom/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current/resc1440.bin > /cdrom/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current/resc1440.bin: x86 boot sector, > system SYSLINUX, FAT (12 bit) unlabeled, 2880 sectors > > So this is fat with syslinux installed. lowmem.bin also > drv1440.bin

Re: floppies' .bin

1999-11-30 Thread Oki DZ
Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: > $ file /cdrom/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current/resc1440.bin > /cdrom/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current/resc1440.bin: x86 boot sector, > system SYSLINUX, FAT (12 bit) unlabeled, 2880 sectors > > So this is fat with syslinux installed. lowmem.bin also > drv1440.bin

Re: floppies' .bin

1999-11-29 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Mon, 29 Nov, 1999 à 06:59:43AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering whether Debian could change the format of the distributed > .bin files in the installation floppies. Currently, it seems that the $ file /cdrom/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current/resc1440.bin /cdrom/dists/slink/main/d

floppies' .bin

1999-11-28 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I'm wondering whether Debian could change the format of the distributed .bin files in the installation floppies. Currently, it seems that the .bin files are custom made and the program for creating them is not openly available. I'm thinking that if the installation files are put in the floppie