Vfat partition - Alignment problem

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On 31 Jul 2001 11:37:26 +0200, Jean-Philippe Georget <jpgeorget at ouvaton.org> said:

    > Hi, I tried to create some vfat partitions with FAI 2.1, Debian
    > 2.2r3.  It seems that there is à problem of alignment as
    > described in setup_harddisks (option '-d').  So I must use
    > I tried "many" modifications in setup_harddisks but none worked.

This tool is very hard to debug, so I will not look for the
error. There are plans to replace setup_harddisks by a complete new
tool. But it will take some time to have it finished.

    > Have you a simple tip to have "ready to use" vfat partition?
    > PS. I trie FAI to make automatic Debian/Windows 9x
    > reinstallation.  I think it should work. Fai is so powerfull ;-)

If you like to make reinstallations, just create the vfat partition
once by hand, then you can preserve the partition in the
package_config file.

-- 
 Thomas
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