[Fai-commit] r3113 - trunk/bin

[Steffen Grunewald]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 03:12:48PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Monday 28 November 2005 14:12, Henning Glawe wrote:
> > this is a no-op. if you call it m-f-bootfloppy, it should actually create a
> > bootfloppy. and I have never seen any of these 2.88M floppy drives.
> 
> cd-booting with el-torrito images uses 2.88M "floppies", that's where it 
> usefull for...

and I use memdisk with 2.88 MB floppy images to perform drive fitness tests,
disk partitioning (using an enhanced tomsrootboot floppy disk image)
and the like (with tftp back to the server so the next reboot will pick up
a different PXE configuration :)

Even if there are no *drives* around - the images are still useful.

Steffen


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