Re: 2.88 MB Floppy Drives

From: Brian K. White (brian_at_aljex.com)
Date: 03/26/04 

Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 23:43:35 -0500

Transpower wrote:
>> I'm interested in the part about /etc/init. What is this "an error
>> message" that you get? What release of OpenServer are you making
>> these boot floppies for? And from what release must you grab
>> /etc/init to overcome this error message?
>>
>
> I'm on 5.0.7. With the current /etc/init, I would get the message
> "WARNING: exit - /etc/init (PID) died, status 0x0000008B" and the
> Root diskette would thus fail. No problem with substituting an
> earlier version of /etc/init, like from 5.0.4. As for attempting to
> copy 1.68 MB to a 1.44 MB floppy, that certainly would not qualify as
> good systems engineering practice.
>
> Transpower

Apparently renegade fringe organizations like IBM didn't get that memo,
seeing as how they distributed OS/2 on 1.8M floppies. :)

There is nothing wrong with it. It's not like overclocking a cpu. It's just
a different distribution of sector sizes and number of inodes and such to
essentially waste less space on formatting overhead. It's no more wrong or
unwise than using that non-standard unix filesystem instead of the
universally accepted ntfs. 

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