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- From: sakaria@vipunen.hut.fi (Sakari Aaltonen)
- Subject: Re: Two suggestions .. comments welcome, please!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.045825.19138@nntp.hut.fi>
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- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 04:58:25 GMT
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- In article <KFOGEL.92Sep8192936@edvac.cs.oberlin.edu> kfogel@edvac.cs.oberlin.edu (Karl Fogel) writes:
- >I had a couple of thoughts. I may not have any more for a while
- >because those about burned me out, so here they are:
- >
- > It would be a great help to those of use who don't have a disk
- >editor for someone to upload pre-edited bootimages to the directories
- >that now normally hold bootimages and/or rootimages. We'd need four
- >more images, I guess: one for booting partition 1, one for 2, 3, and
- >partition 4. If the space can be spared on the ftp sites, it would be
- >a great help. I can't afford to buy a disk-editor myself, and I don't
- >want to pirate one either. Is there anyone who owns a good editor who
- >would be willing to do this for future releases? (Yes, I'm always this
- >glib when volunteering other people :-)
- >...............................................
-
- I don't know about 'good', but I wrote a simple DOS program for this
- purpose called CHGROOT.EXE. It's at nic.funet.fi in pub/OS/Linux/tools/DOS.
- It's been there for a week now; I don't know whether anybody has used it.
- Apparently, PBOOT.EXE does the same thing, but it needs to know the
- major/minor numbers which I keep forgetting. My program tries to do it
- with names like hda5 and sdb1.
-
- You might check it out,
- s.a
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- Sakari Aaltonen Helsinki University of Technology
- Email: sakaria@vipunen.hut.fi
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