peewee on floppy

[Adi Linden]

Hi,

Ooops, I was wrong! pwlconfig requires a pre-formatted floppy. Having said
that it defaults to using /dev/fd0 as floppy device. The Linux kernel
driver sees /dev/fd0 as a 1.44MB floppy. 

You need to create a device for a 1722M floppy like 'mknod /dev/fd0u1722'
if you don't have it already.

Next change the target floppy device in pwlconfig from /dev/fd0 to
/dev/fd0u1722.

pwlconfig uses sfdisk to determine the size of the target device. This
works just fine with a 1722MB floppy.

I just tried it and here's what my df looks like:

Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hde6              3225252   1366776   1694628  45% /
/dev/hde1                 7776      4228      3147  57% /boot
/dev/hde7              8265220   2470312   5375056  31% /home
/dev/hda1              5146980   2980920   1904604  61% /home/stuff
/dev/hda2              2972748   1483688   1338052  53% /home/backup
/dev/fd0                  1704      1401       303  82% /root/PeeWee/Embedded_Build/mnt
                          ^^^^

It does work. And it proves my theory that my floppy drive doesn't support
1722M wrong.

Having said all that I noticed a bug in pwlconfig! It doesn't convert
config files properly between versions and confuses variable names. So
there'll be a fix (peeweelinux 0.53.22) shortly. Details will be posted
seperately.

Hope this helps!

TTYL,
Adi


On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, andu wrote:

> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >Nope, the script that installs the system on the target floppy formats the
> >floppy as 1.44MB regardless of what the previous format was.
> 
> Could the script be hacked to do a superformat instead? If yes where should I look for
> that part?
> 
> >
> >TTYL,
> >Adi 
> >
> >On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, andu wrote:
> >
> >> I tried to install the minimal + some networking stuff on a superformated floppy of
> 1722M.
> >> I guess pwlconfig doesn't see the floppy is bigger, does it?
> >> 
> 
> 
> Regards, Andu 
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